How to Use interrupt in a Sentence

interrupt

verb
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  • It's not polite to interrupt.
  • His dinner was interrupted by a phone call.
  • We interrupt this program to bring you a special announcement.
  • Every summer periods of cool weather occasionally interrupt the intense heat.
  • In the first half of the recording, the background noise is interrupted by two blips of silence.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • But she is soon interrupted by the looming specter of death.
    — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The two lock eyes before they’re interrupted by Alex who clears his throat to cut the tension.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
  • For once, the call interrupting The View's live broadcast came from inside the house.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 13 June 2023
  • At stroke onset, a clot or ruptured blood vessel interrupts blood flow to the brain.
    — Bree Iskandar, STAT, 15 Aug. 2023
  • What Democrats should do now is simple: Do not interrupt this.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • If someone is on a phone call while the test is taking place, their call will not be interrupted.
    — Solcyre Burga, TIME, 4 Oct. 2023
  • And that’s all a miracle is: when the way things are supposed to go gets interrupted.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
  • This gives his eyes texture, but not in a way that greatly interrupts the surface of the picture.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • That rebellion was interrupted by the death of his father in a plane crash when David was 16.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The crew neck is interrupted by a placket with four buttons, kind of like a henley.
    — Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Before things can get too hot and heavy, George's business partner bursts in to interrupt.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 13 July 2023
  • That the show is being interrupted, that this is going to ruin it?
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The bar remained open and the service was only interrupted once by a loud patron.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2024
  • During my performance, the venue owners ran in, interrupted my show and announced that the song had won the Oscar!
    — Gary Trust, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The workers farther back on the line had to rush down the line with their tools and interrupt the workers at the later stage to install the parts scheduled to be installed days before.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Marine life is less disturbed by humans in the dark — seals bark, fish jump — with few boats to interrupt their natural rhythms.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Over the past few years, the kids — from sixth to eighth grade — have been through a lot — the pandemic didn’t just interrupt their academic learning but their dance training as well.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 11 June 2023
  • Her hands raised in excitement, interrupting the brown shades in her eyes.
    — Ugonnaora Owoh, Essence, 15 Sep. 2023
  • On the flip side of that, the narrative is continuously interrupted by tiles on the screen that give context to the action.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Pan interrupted to say that that was more easily said than done.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The barrenness of the terrain was interrupted only by mines.
    — Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • The video showed David playfully interrupting the Spice Girls alum during a sit-down discussion for the doc.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Because Virginia is in the middle of a two-year spending plan adopted last year, the stalemate didn’t interrupt state funding.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In his return to the show, he got frustrated with Bayless interrupting him.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 1 June 2023
  • The weather station data has been interrupted, and the rainstorm is still going on!
    — Eve Sampson, Washington Post, 31 July 2023

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