How to Use intersect in a Sentence

intersect

verb
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  • A dry stream bed intersects the trail in several places.
  • This is not the first time that activism has intersected with awards season this year.
    — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Their stories all intersect on an old bridge over a river in Baltimore.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
  • As broad as that sounds, early on, the group set its sights on bond and levy elections, which intersected with two of the group’s focus areas, taxes and public schools.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Bottega commissioning the artist for this campaign brings to light the beauty of intersecting the worlds of art and fashion.
    — Essence, 17 June 2024
  • There are only finitely many of these hyperbolas and lines to begin with, and two hyperbolas (or lines) can intersect in at most four points.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Three countries intersect at the falls: Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The documents are essential for understanding whether the people who filed them might have conflicts of interest that intersect with their official duties.
    — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022
  • But as the worlds of beauty and technology continue to intersect, the possibilities for our at-home routines are also expanding.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Make sure the two groups intersect right in the middle.
    — Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The lives of three couples intersect one night at one L.A. restaurant in this 2022 thriller.
    — cleveland, 11 Dec. 2022
  • And their lives intersect in different ways, and the timeline jumps around a bit.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Trump's new charges part of a week full of legal twists intersecting with the 2024 campaign.
    — ABC News, 30 July 2023
  • Benjamin and Helen Rask are the power couple at the heart of the tales that intersect and overlap.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Age as well as race is a factor in mental health -- indeed, the two can intersect.
    — Kelly Livingston, ABC News, 6 July 2022
  • In Demonschool, the human and demon worlds intersect in a visual way, where one is 2D and the world of the fantastic springs to life in 3D.
    — Wired, 16 July 2022
  • Then ask yourself, where does that intersect with my life?
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 9 June 2022
  • Did the violence in that region at the end of last year intersect at all with filming the third season, or the show itself?
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The Semisonic collabo isn’t the first time Isbell’s arc has intersected with a ‘90s icon.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
  • This result meant the top of the building intersected with planes' east-west flight paths to a nearby airport.
    — Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Of course, this is far from the only place where three nations intersect at a single point, which is known as a tripoint.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2023
  • At the 1-mile point, Apollo intersects the Dipper Trail.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Black women seem to be where their targets intersect and lock in as their punching bag.
    — Dash Harris, refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Keep a sharp eye out for faint trails that intersect main trails near a food source, or that veer 30 yards downhill from the obvious runway on the ridge top.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Today, the site at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip intersects with a major thoroughfare named for the Tropicana.
    — Rio Yamat, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In the business of farming, self-interest and the common good can intersect.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2022
  • Maybe that's how some of these big storylines will intersect.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 14 July 2022
  • In other words, avoid placing any of these three in a spot that intersects a major traffic path.
    — Cameron Sullivan, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The northbound lanes were closed at milepost 199, right where both highways intersect.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 4 June 2023
  • When these strategies intersect with a field that requires expertise and treats people in vulnerable moments, something’s almost bound to go awry.
    — A.w. Ohlheiser, Vox, 16 May 2024

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