interspersed
adj.adj. placed or scattered at intervals among other things. You use it to describe something that is mixed in here and there rather than being all in one spot.
adj. distributed at intervals or scattered among other items. Often used as a participial adjective to describe a pattern of distribution within a larger set.
The book has short poems interspersed with colorful drawings.
The long, technical presentation was interspersed with brief breaks to keep the audience engaged.
The ancient forest consists primarily of oak trees, interspersed with occasional clusters of silver birch that thrive in the sunnier clearings.
Often follows a linking verb or is used in the passive construction 'be interspersed with'.
interspersed betweeninterspersed withWhile 'between' is used for two distinct points, 'with' is the standard preposition used to describe the items mixed into the main group.