How to Use intersect in a Sentence

intersect

verb
  • The two roads intersect at the edge of town.
  • A dry stream bed intersects the trail in several places.
  • Line A intersects with line B.
  • Make sure the two groups intersect right in the middle.
    Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The 4-foot post should intersect about eight inches below the top of the 6-foot post.
    Tessa Cooper, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Trying to speed up and get to the bike lane on the other side of the road before cars intersect?
    Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 2 June 2021
  • But for this moment, in these Olympics, all lanes seem to be intersecting in the pool.
    Dan Zak, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • If so, the Rangers might be able to move up the point where their talent and contention once again intersect.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 25 June 2021
  • The lives of three couples intersect one night at one L.A. restaurant in this 2022 thriller.
    cleveland, 11 Dec. 2022
  • In other words, there’s a lot of reason to think that the Utah Jazz and the trade deadline may intersect this year.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The two goals could intersect in Netanyahu’s vague plan for a postwar Gaza.
    Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • But does a world exist where all three shows could intersect?
    Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • The loop ramp will be widened to two lanes and will intersect SR 252 opposite of Sperry Road.
    Linda Gandee, cleveland, 1 June 2021
  • Age as well as race is a factor in mental health -- indeed, the two can intersect.
    Kelly Livingston, ABC News, 6 July 2022
  • Each of the chapters can stand alone as a short story, but the lives of the characters intersect within them.
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • 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
  • In this roughly two-hour movie, three young lives intersect.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Always watch the dog and toddler when their paths intersect.
    Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2022
  • These groups might describe, for instance, how loops can intersect and be arranged in the space.
    Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 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 is not the first time that activism has intersected with awards season this year.
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Our lives are intersected with kismet and unexplainable events that can only be described as being set up just for us.
    Katie Robinson, StyleCaster, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Their lives intersect amidst smuggling, survival, and connection.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2024

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