How to Use interruption in a Sentence
interruption
noun-
By limiting their use, schools can minimize interruptions and help students concentrate better on their academic tasks.
— Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024 -
However, the sector is vulnerable to interruptions during the peak fall and holiday shipping seasons.
— Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2024 -
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 -
At the time, few people on social media were talking about chronic illness, and all her friends were healthy and pursuing their careers without interruption.
— Elizabeth Millard, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024 -
Country music star Brantley Gilbert made an impromptu interruption to his concert Friday night – disappearing off stage to help his pregnant wife deliver their baby on the tour bus.
— Caroline Frost, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2024
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