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.
• Tribal lands that intersect with Arizona tend to be somewhat larger than the ones that vanished from the map.
  — Paulina Pineda, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2021
• Their lives intersect amidst smuggling, survival, and connection.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2024
• When a young athlete commits an egregious act, where should punishment intersect with compassion?
  — Jere Longman New York Times, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
• The film interweaves the narratives of 25 young Angelenos as their lives intersect on a night out in a limo.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
• People who already have some familiarity with you might get a clearer sense of how your skills intersect with their needs, and connections can grow from there.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2021
• It’s been fascinating to hear when and where people’s lives intersected with Chris Esparza’s.
  — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
• On Monday, the Dongs welcomed the Thompsons’ great-grandchildren back to the home where their lives intersected.
  — Lynda Lin Grigsby, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024
• In this zippy novel, many characters’ lives intersect in a small Hudson Valley town thanks to a message board started by a city transplant.
  — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
• Bears are common in Japan, according to the Times, and bear searches are typically conducted when the animals intersect with human life.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 21 July 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
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024