How to Use interruption in a Sentence

interruption

noun
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  • To take his club tricks with no interruption, South could play a low trump from both hands at Trick Four.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Choose a genre or mood and groove without interruption until the end of time.
    — WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Though there were fears and threats before the Olympics, the Games went off without any interruption for more than two weeks.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2024
  • That doesn’t include neck pain, headaches, eye strain, and sleep interruptions that can come with screen time.
    — Kristen Fischer, Health, 27 Dec. 2023
  • At a recent event in Virginia, Biden faced more than a dozen interruptions from the crowd calling for an end to the conflict.
    — Molly Nagle, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The show was forced to go to a commercial break after that interruption.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Now, sometimes those interruptions are in our world and not of our own making.
    — Terry Gross, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • One of the things that also is so modern is this concept of interruption.
    — Hazlitt, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The pair make a few stops along the way, but most of the interruptions are in the form of clips or stills from movies that Thomas produced, or earlier ones that influenced him.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Often, the timing between the first gesture’s start and the interruption is in fractions of a second.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2024
  • The tower will have to hold the old ZTE and new Nokia equipment during the rip-and-replace work to prevent any service interruptions.
    — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • These interruptions in the near-flawless horizon were nunataks — the ridges of mountains that emerged from an ice field or glacier in Antarctica.
    — Ali Wunderman, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2023
  • Monica had the self-awareness to know that there was no need for a quippy aside or interruption just to prove herself as a co-host.
    — Lucy Dolan-Zalaznick, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
  • There was a catch, or rather three catches: no Fox News, no live audiences, and no interruptions.
    — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The Eliot-Lewes household seems to have been able to absorb their young deaths without severe interruption.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • After an interruption of centuries, the past lives again.
    — Dallas News, 3 May 2022
  • Swift's team did not return a request to comment on the constant interruptions at shows.
    — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
  • The soundtrack of the ready-to-wear show flicked between radio stations, in constant interruption.
    — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The first verse, without interruption, in the middle of an interview.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024
  • The Kings went on a 13-2 run immediately after the interruption to put the Rockets away.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 2 Apr. 2022
  • There were a number of interruptions at that fundraiser.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • After the interruption, the judge reminded Dominguez of his Fifth Amendment rights.
    — Cheri Mossburg, CNN, 20 June 2023
  • Tonight mics are muted, preventing interruptions on both sides and keeping the back and forth in order.
    — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
  • Oh my God, is that Devin walking in again to interrupt Aaron’s interruption?
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 16 July 2024
  • During the war, there’d been a temporary interruption in supplies, but in the 50s, heroin was back in full force, and New York City was its capital.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
  • There are twists, says Wood, challenges and interruptions that the teams have to incorporate into their designs before they are judged at the end of their episode.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 27 May 2023
  • With Hancock one year removed from that interruption — and fully healthy — Ohio State is making plans to keep him on the field as much as possible.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Rapid-fire speech, turn-taking and the occasional interruption, a new study found.
    — Hannah Jewell, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • Thanks to those interruptions, an observer peering through the moving slits would perceive animation.
    — Charlotte Hu, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The company has also filed motions with the Bankruptcy Court to continue its customer programs without interruption.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024

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