Sentence examples for interposed himself from inspiring English sources

Here Stammers has perhaps briefly interposed himself a little too much.

He called out to him, and a bodyguard quickly interposed himself: "You must not," the bodyguard warned.

On his parents' television, he sees that "a man in clumsy silhouette has interposed himself among these abstract shadows and glare.

In this instance, of course, the person before whom he appeared to have interposed himself as her protector was the President.

Washington hoped to cut off part of the enemy and by a hurried march with six brigades interposed himself at the end of June between Sir Henry Clinton (who had succeeded Howe) and the New Jersey coast.

The relationship between Dean Bernal, a naturalist, and JoJo, a rare lone dolphin, seems to provide evidence of it: during one of their encounters, JoJo interposed himself between Mr. Bernal and a threatening shark, then rammed the shark with his head.

Soon he was swinging chairs, shoving men, interposing himself into dancing couples.

By the time Chuck was eight or nine, he was interposing himself between his father and his mother, or his father and his brothers.

Now, however, he has become the ultimate federal nurse, interposing himself -- and the Drug Enforcement Administration -- between Oregon physicians and their dying patients.

Teodoro Petkoff, editor of the Tal Cual newspaper and putative presidential candidate, describes Chávez (in an introduction to Hugo Chávez sin Uniforme, a biography published last year) as a latterday Zelig - forever changing and forever interposing himself in each scene in history.

He championed them as much as he championed a broader justice, interposing himself between protesters and the police, and trying -- sometimes in vain -- to prevent angry young men from incinerating those they suspected of collaborating with the white authorities, using a fiery "necklace" of a blazing, gasoline-soaked tire.