intersperse

Verb

1. To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other.
   • For example, a commercial sequence might intersperse pictures of a senator working in his office with shots of ordinary Americans happily working in various walks of life. - 1991, Frank Biocca, Television and Political...
2. To scatter or insert something into or among other things.
   • When writing, I intersperse details.
   • Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka. This vast untamed area of forest and mountain (much of it over 2,000 ft. above sea level), interspersed with innumerable...
   • Review tasks are particularly useful to intersperse when students are experiencing considerable failure. - 1985, Jane Y. Murdock, Barbara V. Hartmann, Communication and language intervention program (CLIP) for...

   Synonyms: thread

3. To diversify by placing or inserting other things among something.
   • Mother Nature interspersed the petunias with a few dandelions, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.