How to Use intercept in a Sentence

intercept

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• The police intercepted him as he was walking out.
• Detectives have been intercepting her mail.
• And that would be the final, after the Chiefs intercepted a Chargers throw to end the game.
  — Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 22 Oct. 2023
• Why would Marsh have sent the Expendables to intercept Rahmat in the first place?
  — Richard Newby, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
• One play was a reverse pass that was intercepted in the red zone.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2023
• On the first play of overtime, the Chiefs nearly intercepted Purdy on a tipped pass.
  — Brett Knight, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• But Sunday was not a great game for Jackson, who fell prey to a strip sack in the first half and was intercepted in the end zone in the fourth quarter.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• Destroying a major cache like the ones intercepted in the fall could still present a challenge.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
• Sisson intercepted a pass by Pavel Buchnevich and snapped in a wrist shot for the unassisted goal.
  — Warren Mayes, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
• For what Klopp needs—hard running, intercepting play, and holding onto the ball—he’s been a real find, though.
  — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The second suspect was intercepted by the homeowner armed with a firearm.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
• Stafford answered with a 46-yard pass to Van Jefferson, but Wilson intercepted his next pass at the 22 yard-line.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Fans had already moved down to the court area as Mark Mitchell heaved a long inbounds pass that was intercepted by Cam Hildreth near midcourt.
  — CBS News, 24 Feb. 2024
• When a scam artist called Cameron Huddleston's mom to tell her to wire money in order to claim a prize, Huddleston had to intercept the calls.
  — CBS News, 10 Apr. 2023
• The defending team used a static image with the sole purpose of intercepting the ball.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2023
• The first pass Moore threw against the Utes was intercepted and returned for a touchdown, starting a streak of three consecutive games with a pick-six.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Other objects were intercepted over Alaska and over the Midwest, with one shot down over Lake Huron.
  — Ian Duncan, Dan Lamothe, Emily Davies, Michael Laris and Lori Aratani, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2023
• The missile may have been successfully intercepted, but due to its mile-a-second speed, some of the debris struck the target area.
  — Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2023
• Since 2022, the station reported, her husband would intercept Abdulkareem at the door and steer him away from the office and patients.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024
• Thompson intercepted three passes for the ‘21 Aztecs en route to first-team honors in the Mountain West Conference.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
• Isaiah Hasten caught four passes for 101 yard and a touchdown and intercepted a pass.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• Carson Diehl caught seven passes for 111 yards and two TDs, plus intercepted a pass.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2023
• Israel said about a quarter of the rockets were misfired and landed in Gaza, while most of the rest were either intercepted or landed in open areas.
  — Fares Akram and Isabel Debre, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2023
• Or building catapults to launch lunar dust into orbit around Earth and intercept the sun’s rays in the space near our planet.
  — Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
• Larrabee, who is based in San Antonio, said his agents intercept guns and ammo headed south multiple times a week.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
• Two were intercepted discussing a drug deal that netted $400 in profit.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• Needing one final stop, the Lakers and Grizzlies scrambled for a loose ball, with James intercepting a pass while streaking the other way at full speed.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
• Although air defenses have brought down Iskander missiles in the past, it is believed that Ukraine has failed to intercept a single Kh-22 in almost two years of war.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
• Klimek: How does attempting to intercept and land on an asteroid differ from trying to do that with a planet?
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
• This ensures that anyone who tries to intercept it will only see unintelligible content.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024

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intercept

2 of 2 noun

• The Tuesday intercept was at least the second one in 2023.
  — Doug G. Ware and Corey Dickstein, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
• The intercept is caught on video with a flash of light and colors as the target is destroyed.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 13 July 2017
• The F-15s had a successful intercept on the MiG 23s and were in a position to shoot them down.
  — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2022
• Clowney intercepts deflected pass by Wright and returns the pick 27 yards to the house!
  — oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2019
• Now, what is interesting in this story is not the act of the intercept.
  — Robert Bateman, Esquire, 6 June 2017
• They have been removed from the tax refund intercept list.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• These had flown to the intercept from bases as far away as California.
  — William Langewiesche, The Atlantic, 21 June 2018
• On Tuesday, one of Medina's first intercepts of the day was a group of nine adults and five children, ranging in age from 8 months to 12 years old.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 21 June 2018
• The event is to be the system’s first attempted intercept of a target missile in nearly three years.
  — David Willman, latimes.com, 30 May 2017
• The U.S. spy plane was in international airspace when the Russian jet closed in for an intercept.
  — Andrew Rafferty, NBC News, 20 June 2017
• The intercept, if successful, would take place northwest of Hawaii.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2021
• In a few minutes, a Chinese fighter jet armed with air-to-air missiles intercepts the US plane, nestling in just 500 feet off its port side.
  — Ivan Watson, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• This intercept seems safe, but others can be quite unsafe.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2019
• The last unsafe intercept by Russia occurred late last year, in November 2018, over the Black Sea.
  — CBS News, 5 June 2019
• The entire intercept is flown hands-off, with the pilot only adjusting the throttle.
  — Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2022
• Seven minutes left in what had been a dreadful Bengals show and Dunlap leaps, tips, intercepts, runs and scores.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• As ships are moving targets, the missile uses a radar-seeker to complete the intercept.
  — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• In most cases, the intercepts are deemed safe and professional.
  — Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2023
• People can challenge the intercept and request a hearing with DUA.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• The gang’s leaders, the Sky intercepts reveal, often reveled in torture.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• When a black and tan fellow with a jaunty tail tries to get fresh with Goldie, a park ranger intercepts his amorous advances, stern as a middle-school dance chaperone.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• If two words diverge on the open seas & the dot product is without derivative, the intercept can be found only by Venn diagrams on the tongue.
  — Jennifer Gresham, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020
• Assuming that the 60 percent intercept rate is accurate, that is enough to ensure the shoot-down of up to 11 incoming warheads.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Mar. 2019
• There have been two unsafe intercepts in the last couple of weeks, according to U.S. defense officials.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 5 June 2023
• China disputed the account and said its aircraft had made a legal intercept.
  — Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2018
• The incident was reportedly the fourth close intercept between U.S and Russian forces since April.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2020
• The Iron Dome's short-range defense system intercepts most rockets fired toward Israel.
  — NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• As short-range search-and-rescue, armed interdiction, and air-intercept assets, the units that fly these aging platforms have little to no backup.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• Israeli estimates are based in part on intercepts of Hamas’s own assessments, the official added.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• The blog post cited radio intercepts of conversations of troops operating in eastern Ukraine.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024