How to Use interlude in a Sentence

interlude

noun

• She left for a brief interlude.
• They always met in the city for their romantic interludes.
• He has resumed his acting career after a two-year interlude.
• There was a longer, odder, interlude after the first game of the third set, when action was held up for seven minutes because of an issue with some of the stadium lights.
  — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2020
• More by Carl Nolte There seems to be nothing now in Granada to remind visitors of this strange interlude.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• His pristine account of the final interlude failed to convey its melancholy collapse into the Mahlerian past.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• The multicultural ensemble and the bright, crazy trappings keep the energy up during the times when plot recaps and romantic interludes slow it down.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• In a strangely oblivious interlude, the assistant steels herself and walks over to the H.R. department to blow the whistle.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Jan. 2020
• Gebremedhin: There are two interludes centered on J and her fascination with a childhood friend, now an avant-garde artist living in Detroit.
  — Thomas Gebremedhin, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2020
• This interlude is quite the tease, so be sure to press play on the full version and get your house/dance on and set the streets on fire.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 11 Nov. 2020
• Press PLAY on the video at the top of the post to hear what else the actors had to say about filming the intimate interlude.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 24 June 2024
• But the crowds that await interludes of good weather to rush for the summit can be just as deadly.
  — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
• Soon, though, the song slowed to a gospel-style interlude before swelling again to a joyous crescendo.
  — Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2022
• Link walks up on their romantic interlude, shocked to find the love of his life in a major lip lock.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2021
• The Fifth Harmony alum comes in for a rap interlude naked on a round platform.
  — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 16 July 2021
• My two-hour interlude passed all too quickly, but the pianist played on.
  — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
• To me, this is still the most eye-opening revelation of the strange Trump interlude.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• And now, after this interleague interlude, the Giants turn their sights back to the NL West.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 June 2021
• Interlude-19 is about…this period in our lives that is like an interlude.
  — Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2021
• For most young workers, such stays will be interludes in their lives, Thompson said.
  — Yucheng Tang, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• The best of the interludes was before the finale, with Gaga at her most melodramatic.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2024
• The third and final season cranked up the romance and humor (an All-4-One interlude at a wedding?
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 24 June 2021
• The interlude with the kayakers, though, reminded him of what was missing.
  — Brian Murphy, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2020
• In the film, Dorothy leaves the island after her romantic interlude with Hermie and writes him a farewell note.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• The beaming members urged fans watching the show to clap and sing along to the classic number, and the sharpness of their dance during the interlude also caught the eye.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2022
• Take a minute to soothe yourself with this video interlude produced for the Sierra Club Artist Series.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
• These light interludes speak to the politics of Blackness too.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• The PowerPoint is the weird interlude three quarters of the way through that is actually kind of groovy.
  — Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• The season’s first episode, an extended, mostly wordless interlude of flashbacks and intrusive thoughts afflicting Carmy in the weeks after his restaurant opens, manages to be strikingly ambitious while also comprehensible.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 July 2024
• Composer Lia Ouyang Rusli’s score complements that visual grace while also capturing the characters’ youthful energy in techno interludes.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024