How to Use interrupter in a Sentence

interrupter

noun
  • Look the interrupter in the eye, smile and finish your thought.
    Annie Lane, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The account did not mention that Trump was the evening’s interrupter in chief.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Barksdale was shot and killed three years ago, at age 46 -- the first of three Safe Streets violence interrupters murdered in the span of a year.
    Byron Pitts, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • For sure, this woman is an interrupter, and her husband is calling her on it.
    Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 19 May 2021
  • The squad of violence interrupters deters or stops multiple fights a week in the parking lots and bus stops across from the school.
    Jordan Heller, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The Men and Women of Color and other groups of peace builders and violence interrupters walked the streets until 2 a.m.
    Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 16 July 2019
  • The interrupter, a male, could not be understood from initial video.
    Barack Obama, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The boy’s mother – a violence interrupter – told FOX 5 that he’d been caught in the middle of a neighborhood dispute.
    Fox News, 10 July 2020
  • Yes, this sort of rudeness toward an old friend would be a friendship-interrupter, if not a friendship-ender.
    Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Pyne was an expert interrupter, but this caller barely paused for breath.
    Kevin Cook, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • What kind of headway have violence interrupters made with some of the people involved in this conflict?
    Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
  • Safe Streets violence interrupters were present at the block party but left before the shootings occurred.
    Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In 2019, a man learning to be a violence interrupter, Clarence Venable, was shot and killed after a training session.
    Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2020
  • Some have worked as violence interrupters, or to raise awareness about mental health and wellness through their products and services.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
  • The heavy-duty blower comes with a fault interrupter outlet to prevent shocks and electrical shortages.
    Heather Balogh Rochfort, Parents, 18 May 2024
  • Simply plug a pool vacuum into a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) outlet and place it in the water.
    Bridget Degnan, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The mother, Crystal McNeal, had organized the cookout as part of her work for the District as a violence interrupter, trying to persuade young men and teenagers to put down their guns.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 9 July 2020
  • According to the first report obtained by The News on Tuesday, not a single violence interrupter had been hired by Oct. 31, one month after the city’s budget was approved.
    Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Jovan’s father, Jovan Davis Sr., who works with the city as a violence interrupter, said he is comforted to know that his son is safe, learning and supervised in school all day.
    Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Their motor, cord, and ground-fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) can get extremely hot.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Several ongoing efforts are looking at solid-state circuit interrupters that are one-tenth the weight of their ground counterparts and yet can clear a DC fault 10 times as fast.
    Amy Jankovsky, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2023
  • So long as these interrupters abide by Twitter's TOS, their disagreeable posts and arguments break no apparent site rules.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The regulatory scrutiny over the GPS starter interrupter devices comes as cracks are starting to appear in the red-hot auto loan market.
    Michael Corkery and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2017
  • The neighborhoods without the interrupters were 12% less likely to use violence during the same period.
    Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017
  • His office also hires violence interrupter programs like Dallas Cred, investing about $1 million a year in the work.
    Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2024
  • Part of the future plan is to establish six different sites across high-crime neighborhoods that will employ 10-person teams of violence interrupters.
    Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2018
  • The mayor’s latest budget pumps millions into crime mitigation programs and more than doubles the size of the violence interrupter unit.
    Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
  • According to Butts, this key measure of success was also found in a 2017 evaluation of violence interrupter programs in New York City.
    Deena Zaru, ABC News, 9 Nov. 2021
  • There are also other items in this toolset for more professional use, like a non-contact voltage tester with a flashlight, a ground fault circuit interrupter tester, and a voltage and continuity tester.
    Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2024
  • What’s more, there are other items in this toolset reserved for professional use, such as a non-contact voltage tester with a flashlight, a ground fault circuit interrupter tester, and a voltage and continuity tester.
    Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2022

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