Definition: 1. To become involved in a situation in order to improve or help it. 2. Get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force. 3. Be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events. 4. Occur between other event or between certain points of time.
Use 'intervene' in a sentence:
1. Colonel Gaddafi even had to intervene to keep the peace.
2. The plans would give Brussels unprecedented power to intervene.
3. My wife and I keep tabs, but rarely intervene.
4. Who gave you the right to intervene in our internal affairs?
5. He tried in vain to keep the two dogs apart before the neighbour intervened.
6. Three hours later, the police tried to intervene.
7. Sounds like I need to intervene. Just in time.
8. 'I've told you he's not here,' Irena intervened.
9. Occasionally, people need to intervene in a business process.
10. You have no right ever to intervene in our internal affairs.
11. Why did other countries intervene?
12. The script has lost all of its shock value over the intervening 24 years.
13. If we need to intervene, we will intervene at that time.
14. A week intervenes between Christmas and New Year's Day.
15. That's what stimulated the decision to act, to intervene.
16. The existence of more than one agency with power to intervene can lead to children falling through the net.
17. Our hope is that if we feed blueberry juice to a child with this type of tumour, we can intervene and shrink the tumour before it becomes a big problem.
18. If there were a breakdown of law and order, the army might be tempted to intervene.
19. They were planning to get married and then the war intervened.
20. They had scoured the intervening miles of moorland.
21. Later he sees another gang abusing a woman butdoesn't intervene.
22. It does not intervene in this process or this one.
23. Normally the Vatican does not intervene in the internal affairs of religious orders except in cases of disputed elections.
24. Or does he trust in God to intervene?
25. She might have been killed if the neighbours hadn't intervened.
26. Little had changed in the intervening years.
27. You intervene when you can, not to be consistent.
28. We have no intention of intervening in the internal affairs of other countries.
29. He would ask Congress to intervene and head off a strike.
30. They remain unwilling to intervene militarily in what could be an unending war.
31. The situation calmed down when police intervened.
32. She needs someone to intervene.
33. The intervening years had dimmed his memory.
34. We may have to intervene militarily in the area.
35. I had spent the intervening time in London, with Gretchen.
36. Just as it seemed that nothing could stop me, fate intervened.
37. When it came to it, who would be willing to intervene?
38. That compelled the military to intervene, installing a caretaker government.
39. They filmed the incident, but did not intervene.
40. Hattie intervened and told me to stop it.
41. That is why government has historically intervened, banning advertising, imposing health warnings and punitive duties.
42. The French Interior Minister has intervened in a scandal over the role of a secret police force.
43. The problem lies in deciding when to intervene.
44. Let me find an intermediary to intervene.
45. There are petitions to intervene, requirements for standing.
46. A less common tactic is to intervene directly in local markets.
47. During those intervening years Bridget had married her husband Robert.
48. The commission intervened and commanded that work on the building cease.
49. Free-marketeers would argue that governments do not need to intervene in the currency and interest rate process unduly.
50. I pray that death may not intervene to prevent our meeting with my darling children.
51. The security forces had to intervene to prevent the situation worsening.
52. I saw nothing of her during the years that intervened.
53. The South African mailboat arrived on Friday mornings unless bad weather intervened.
