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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In Louisville, the Metro Council stopped funding the city’s three interrupter teams in 2019 after an interrupter was arrested for dealing methamphetamine (the charges were later dropped) and another worker was charged with raping a woman.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 30 Jan. 2023
• Many other cities also began adopting the interrupter model.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 30 Jan. 2023
• And only as recently as 1991 were these devices legally required to contain ground fault circuit interrupters, which greatly decrease the danger of high-voltage injury or death.
  — Maria Teresa Hart, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024