'intervene' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'intervene' with 10 example sentences.
- intervene verb
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: 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.