How to Use interpolate in a Sentence

interpolate

verb
  • He smoothly interpolates fragments from other songs into his own.
  • He interpolated a very critical comment in the discussion.
  • One way to get out of the jam -- just interpolate right away!
    — Anthony Cougar Miccio, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2021
  • And so a line can interpolate through two points but not three.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2022
  • That just wouldn’t have crossed my brain, to try to interpolate that into a song.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
  • That just wouldn’t have crossed my brain, to try to interpolate that into a song.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
  • In the lead-up to the song’s release, Halsey claimed that Spears gave her permission to interpolate her 2000 single of the same name for the song.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The new song interpolates the Brandy and Monica classic, in which the women fight over a boy who’s not worth either of their time.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The new track interpolates part of Lamar’s anthemic 2015 song, which was co-produced by Pharrell and won two Grammy Awards.
    — Mesfin Fekadu, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Grande interpolates the melody in her verses with a saucy attitude.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Jan. 2019
  • There was a voice message from Daniel Garcia’s mom that was interpolated in a music video.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
  • So interpolating the song in different ways that people can party to it, dance to it, chill this summer.
    — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
  • Many of the realists whose novels are being interpolated by this show, though, were obsessed with the present.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023
  • With her new track of the same name, the 29-year-old singer interpolates Spears’ hit into a softer, acoustic context to drive home the message of life under a modern microscope.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 26 July 2024
  • Drake clearly took some inspiration from her, interpolating her flow and even adopting a few of her most quotable lines.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
  • This may not be deathless prose, but Google’s AI, which works by interpolating new sentences to link sentences it is provided, seems to have captured something of the genre.
    — Stephen L. Carter, The Denver Post, 3 May 2017
  • This is not the first time that West has been sued for illegally sampling or interpolating other artist’s songs into his tracks.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Lisa is interpolating a Nineties classic on her new single.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024
  • This reliance on sampling and interpolating older songs on Pink Friday 2 will not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed the Hot 100 in recent years.
    — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Part of Ayers’s respect in the hip-hop community is derived from his willingness to work with the artists who’ve sampled and interpolated him.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The song has been sampled or interpolated over 150 times, according to Whosampled.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The reader struggles, along with Vanessa, to make sense of what is happening, to interpolate, to see the truth, with so many false accounts, so many delusions, so many efforts to neaten or prettify.
    — Katie Roiphe, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The Stein and Thomson estates, however, refused permission to interpolate these new texts into the work.
    — Ryan Ebright, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • What hahahaspam did was interpolate between the frames, making the motion appear much more smooth.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2012
  • Musgraves is surely the only artist, country or otherwise, who is making records eclectic enough to crib ancient Scottish folk melodies on one song and interpolate a hook from rapper JID on the next.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Throughout the project’s 13 tracks, the 30-year-old Puerto Rican superstar interpolates ethereal, ultra-modern beats as lyrical tales of longing come to the surface.
    — Richy Rosario, refinery29.com, 6 May 2024
  • The cast is largely Japanese, with some American actors interpolated in scenes shot in this country.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2018
  • The Economist’s team (also stuck with the spurious 4636 datapoint) used a Machine Learning model to try to interpolate the missing data.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Ultimately, Larson and Vogt proved that curves will always interpolate through the expected number of points, with the exception of four special cases.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Boxer was tasked with developing a sweet riff on Guinness and oysters: a classic, harmonious pairing where the delicate, sweet iodine of the oysters interpolates with the bolshie caramel stout.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'interpolate.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: