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.
  • The two paths intersect after the killer tries to find his way home.
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2021
  • The best brands in the world know how to intersect culture in clever, meaningful ways.
    Noah Echols, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The new proof quantifies the number of times that a type of curve can intersect special points in a surrounding space.
    Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Rather than separate himself from the wider world, Ali created the place where sports and politics intersect.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Race, class, and gender are all on Ada’s mind, but the power structures where those things intersect occasionally get lost.
    Amy Pedulla, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Why are the Japanese whose lives intersect with Mr. Anyalechi’s and others like him absent for much of the story?
    Sheila A. Smith, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Thomas said throughout her legal career, she’s worked to understand how the legal system intersects with everyday people.
    Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Baseball’s chewing tradition may also intersect with its long history of strategic rule-breaking.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Biden will now have a harder time forging the coalitions required to counter flash points in security, economics, health, or climate, which increasingly intersect.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • That tiny space where those two behaviors intersect in the Venn diagram is the 10X zone, populated by open-minded world-class founders.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Reproductive justice is a way of understanding how economics intersect with reproductive health, and can be a way to mobilize people.
    Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2021
  • 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

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