How to Use interregnum in a Sentence

interregnum

noun
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  • Maybe the movies are on life support, slogging through some long interregnum, waiting for some new, fresh form to replace it.
    — John Semley, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
  • If the king’s death cannot be imagined, there can be no interregnum.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 10 Nov. 2020
  • With the rise of the Tang in the 7th century the shift to the Yangtze River which had occurred in the interregnum solidified.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2011
  • The two-week interregnum between the conference championships and the Super Bowl brought the rest of the drama.
    — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022
  • War would, of course, be inevitable, but the interregnum between wars would be lengthened.
    — Steven Simon, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The history of kare-kare is often traced to a 20-month interregnum in the 18th century when the British wrested Manila from the Spanish.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Noel was the first to leave; for years, Liam and the other members carried on as Beady Eye, in a sort of Britpop interregnum, before dissolving in 2014.
    — Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2017
  • Back during the Steve Jobs interregnum, Tim Cook was running around the globe finding partners to make products.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2018
  • The post-Cold War era has given way to an uneasy interregnum in which great-power rivalry grows.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
  • And Soto-Martinez said that there is some hope that even this interregnum period might not be as dire as the worst-case scenario suggests.
    — Nicholas Slayton, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
  • This film, an adaptation of graphic novels about the brief interregnum between Stalin’s stroke and death in 1953, was conceived well before Brexit and the rise of Trump.
    — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Whoever takes over City Ballet long-term must address not just the legacy of Mr. Martins but also the achievements of this interregnum, too.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
  • So what’s the deal with the Seinfeld summertime interregnum?
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 17 June 2021
  • Sun Zhengcai, who had succeeded Mr Bo in Chongqing following a brief interregnum, was sacked.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2017
  • That interregnum lasted barely two years before North Vietnamese troops rolled into Saigon and took over that whole country.
    — David A. Andelman, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Furthermore his interregnum between full-time roles started at the beginning of the pandemic through to last week.
    — Peter High, Forbes, 7 May 2021
  • Instead of the final act of Mueller’s investigation, the hearing is likely to feel like a strange interregnum, the in-between as Congress wrestles with how far and how long to press its own inquiries.
    — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 22 July 2019
  • Screen Auckland manager Matt Horrocks says the new stages were built to meet the growing demand of the past five years for studio space and quality content — despite the interregnum of the pandemic.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Naval inaction in the face of wide public interest only prolongs the interregnum aboard the USS Connecticut.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The reemergence of his footage comes as Myanmar is once again living in the shadow of military rule, after a short interregnum under civilian government.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Covid restrictions ushered in an era — or at least an interregnum — of seated, socially distanced tastings, with flights ordered off a menu and brought to our table.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
  • Because that’s really what this collection was (or seemed to be): not a major statement, but rather a cleansing interregnum after the overblown muchness of Mr. Michele’s tenure.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • For those whose politeness is ingrained, courtesy won’t be much affected by the social interregnum.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2021
  • Douglas draws the climbers like astronauts, specimens of brawn and brain, and the alpine competitions between nations, especially in the interregnum between the world wars, feel almost like a preview of the Cold War space race.
    — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2021
  • What kind of trouble have past outgoing presidents made during the interregnum?
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2020
  • After two years of an interregnum, Fabio Luisi is building on those assets, but with some different priorities.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The British interregnum lasted 20 years until the Spanish reclaimed the territory.
    — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • It’s a fleeting Covid-era interregnum in which the elders celebrate while their younger counterparts lurk in grocery stores in search of leftover shots or rage on social media, envious of those who have received a vaccine.
    — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Across the country, Hardin, with his 20-year interregnum between his Portland-police and sheriff’s-office appointments, took a more circuitous path to law-enforcement success than Battle.
    — oregonlive, 18 June 2020
  • During this interregnum period, type Ia supernovae, which last longer than type IIs, began to inject iron into these gases.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2018

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