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'intervene' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'intervene' with 10 example sentences.


intervene verb

: get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force

: be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events

: occur between other event or between certain points of time


  • Police intervened, firing tear gas to disperse the crowds.
  • The kids fought with each other, so the parents had to intervene.
  • The army had to intervene.
  • If you intervene, they will also intervene.
  • Maybe the village elders will intervene to reconcile them.
  • They shouldn't intervene in the internal affairs of another state.
  • The hockey referee intervened to stop the fight.
  • He intervened in the family affairs of his friend.
  • We take health for granted until illness intervenes.
  • The Kaiser asked Theodore Roosevelt to intervene.
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