intersperse
When you intersperse something, you scatter it with spaces in between, the way you intersperse vegetable seeds along a row in a garden bed.
A wallpaper pattern might intersperse polka dots with bright flowers, and a writer might intersperse colorful details throughout an essay on the sword fishing industry. If you place things here and there, at intervals or leaving room between each item, you intersperse them. The Latin root is interspersus, "strewn or scattered," and in the mid-1500s the word intersperse was used mostly to mean "diversify by introducing things at intervals."
Usage Examples
You probably expected a thousand words on gravity or the four laws of thermodynamics, not a journal recounting the last 144 days of my life—possibly of all life—interspersed with crazy doomsday scenarios.
The words of love that interspersed those of mental anguish were not ones that a silly girl blushed over and hoarded to herself.
This time there were words interspersed in the humming.
And with all the cold-weather rowing interspersed with days when they couldn’t row at all, the boys’ morale began to erode.
vt. 散置，散步，点缀；
Flowers were interspersed among bushes.
The newspater section is interspersed with advertisements.
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