How to Use intercut in a Sentence

intercut

verb
  • Sweet home videos of the couples were intercut with the PDA scenes as well.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Oct. 2019
  • But notes of hazelnut and oak intercut it with a smoky edge for a distinct taste.
    Anna Tingley, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Being able to intercut with the drama, but then show the band at its peak, was important.
    Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Kimmel then showed footage of Trump and Pope Francis intercut with scenes of the president trying in vain to hold hands with the pope.
    Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2017
  • The video intercuts clips of Gosling practicing his moves in sweatpants and a backwards hat in a dance studio with footage from the finished film.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 21 Aug. 2023
  • As was the case with Fox's 2016 live musical, the back-up plan called to use footage from Saturday's dress rehearsal and intercut it with live scenes.
    Lesley Goldberg, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2019
  • But adding to the scene's power was the choice to intercut clips of Max bonding with her friends from throughout the show while the song reaches its emotional climax.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The scenes are short, clipped, often intercutting between two lines of action.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2018
  • Thus the editing proceeds throughout the project, as Vallée intercuts brief snippets of images that might later make sense.
    Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 6 July 2018
  • Philippe intercuts that story with Shatner’s parallel recounting of the same tale in his series of one-man shows.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The documentary is full of behind-the-scenes clips of the band members intercut with snippets of fans trying to articulate what attracts them to the group.
    Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
  • The two main stories were intercut with the subtlety of someone flipping channels.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 June 2017
  • The mounting orchestra is intercut with Harold Beane’s fuzz-heavy guitar.
    Emily Lordi, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Being able to see the beginning of that relationship intercut with the possible end of it.
    Nicole Sperling, HWD, 20 June 2018
  • Everyday life is at the center of the show and The Troubles are in the background, occasionally intercutting the action.
    Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Rosefeldt attempts to inject a bit of the old break-up by intercutting among a few vignettes, but the effort feels perfunctory.
    Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 May 2017
  • Along the main street in Hirafu, a central village that shares a name with the area’s most popular ski resort, masses of glass walls intercut with clean lines of concrete and steel loom over the snowy landscape.
    Hikari Hida, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Padilla intercuts the action and drama with scenes of a performance of an Israeli modern dance troupe rehearsing a show.
    Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • But in the corresponding music video, which intercuts band performance footage with scenes from the film, Body Count multitracks the vocals, coming on like an army.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Much of the film, which was shot in Arizona last summer and features Bible scriptures intercut throughout, centers on a gospel choir in brown robes singing traditional Christian hymns.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The title sequence of the film features a montage of imagery from Black Lives Matter protests and other recent news events intercut with Parks’ images from civil rights movement protests.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Bethesda The new launch date announcement trailer intercuts shots of space stations and massive castle-like spires on barren planets.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Her difficult public life is intercut with joyous scenes like that of her fruitful creative life, bringing viewers into her recording studio for the first time.
    Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Some channels do history like a school teacher would: intercutting their talking head with old timey drawings and diagrams.
    Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 25 June 2019
  • To create one 90-second film loop, Kelly intercut archival and contemporary images to haunting effect.
    Sophie Haigney Philip Cheung, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • That tale unfolded in a tricky narrative structure which constantly intercut between the two time periods.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 9 May 2024
  • The film is awash in music: Daniel Hart’s evocative original compositions occasionally intercut with a dreamy pop tune.
    Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 25 Jan. 2017
  • Poll’s challenges were technical, intercutting the dramatic scenes with musical moments, or cutting the film’s opening number with its great crescendo.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
  • My parents’ wedding videographer intercut a clip from kermit and Miss Piggy’s wedding into their service?? without asking???
    Ashley Hoffman, Time, 9 Oct. 2019
  • His videos were intercut by rants about the political causes he was obsessed by—access to clean water, the degradation of the environment, social discrimination.
    Anna Heyward, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2017

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