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.
  • In this roughly two-hour movie, three young lives intersect.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 15 Oct. 2021
  • All of the ways that their identities intersect as people and as writers.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Kitty has family issues that don’t intersect with the main plot.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 24 July 2024
  • What’s more, a round bit of dough often included where the strips intersect represents a skull.
    Steve Padilla, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
  • His storyline has to intersect with everything else that’s going on at some point.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Think about where your in-store experience will intersect with other customer touchpoints.
    Jason Cottrell, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • It’s what makes the dark comedy relatable to the likes of us mere mortals whose lives don’t intersect with Hollywood celebrities.
    Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Brand growth, privacy and the customer experience must start to intersect much more seamlessly.
    Billee Howard, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Each playwright wrote one episode and then joined forces to collaborate on the final play in the series as the different characters intersect.
    Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • All of these aspects intersect with each other, and improving one increases the ability to take advantage of the others.
    Jason Frazier, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Watersheds that intersected with state lines were not included in the calculation to avoid double counting.
    Aaron Steckelberg, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • But those situations all intersect with each other, meaning Republicans in the Legislature will have to make a choice.
    Steven Lemongello, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Drivers are encouraged to be extra cautious in areas where fencerows, riparian corridors, or other blocks of forested habitat intersect a roadway.
    Jared Goffinet, The Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Make sure the two groups intersect right in the middle.
    Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But for this moment, in these Olympics, all lanes seem to be intersecting in the pool.
    Dan Zak, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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