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How to use interruption in a sentence

28 example sentences · noun

Interruption means the act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted. Example: “She grew exasperated by his constant interruptions.”

Examples of interruption by meaning

nounThe act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.

  • The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable.2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27

More sentences with interruption

  • She grew exasperated by his constant interruptions.From the entry exasperated
  • They don't let themselves get distracted by brain traffic, emails, or interruptions.2013, Laura Stack, Focusing on Your Work, page 13. From the entry brain traffic
  • But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings.2000, David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman, page 73. From the entry lingering
  • Subjects recalled as much with midsentence interruptions as with end-of-sentence interruptions as with no interruptions at all.1998, Walter Kintsch, Comprehension: A Paradigm for Cognition, Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 230. From the entry midsentence
  • In qualitative studies, open-collar workers said they felt they accomplished more because there were fewer interruptions.1990, Ronald D. Rotstein, The Future, Carol Publishing Group, page 41. From the entry open-collar
  • Margaret Cerullo gave a rousing speech, despite the pesky interruptions of a cranky sound system.1987 December 6, Kris Kleindienst, “Sex On The Table”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 21, page 6. From the entry cranky
  • Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced without interruption.1985, David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of Kūkai and Dōgen, page 59. From the entry presence
  • Supplementary relative clauses (which other books call “appositive relatives” or “non-restrictive relatives”) are optional parenthetical interruptions of sentences.2024, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry supplementary relative clause
  • Despite the construction of muffling sheds and sound barriers, the report has continued largely without interruption — thock, thock, thock-thock, thock.2007 April 7, Andy Newman, “City Islanders Ponder Future Without Gunfire Across Bay”, in New York Times. From the entry thock
  • This avoids client-side buffer underflows and rebuffering interruptions.2005, Stephen B. Weinstein, The multimedia Internet. From the entry rebuffer
  • Again she bemoans the inroad of interruptions, especially those of the "inexorable" telephone which keeps Polly on the jump.1937, The New Outlook for the Blind - Volumes 31-32, page 198. From the entry on the jump
  • No interruptions, no belated after-glows and spasmodic returns.1922, Elizabeth von Arnim, chapter 16, in The Enchanted April, New York: Washington Square Press, published 1995, page 216. From the entry afterglow
  • A gentle bring-bring sounded with interruption.2023, J. A. Bouma, chapter 9, in End of Days (Order of Thaddeus; 13), Grand Rapids, Mich.: EmmausWay Press, →ISBN. From the entry bring
  • With a tighter, earlier Season 6 premiering Wednesday night on FX, fans can get their dose of Murphian horror without fear of interruption.2016 September 14, Joanna Robinson, “Ryan Murphy Reveals the Real Reason Behind American Horror Story’s Radical Re-invention”, in Vanity…. From the entry Murphian
  • Their heightened enjoyment Iser explains in terms of the protensive tension provoked by the strategic interruption of the narrative at crucial moments .2010, Robert Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled, page 110. From the entry protensive
  • I often think back on this moment and wonder if the interruptions had caused her to misstitch me in some fundamental way.2008, Elle - Issues 273-275, page 175. From the entry misstitch
  • She didn’t notice, mainly because (a) her back was to him and (b) her conversation with Char about sockwear was too urgent for petty interruptions.2004, Peter Lerangis, Spy X: The Code, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 78. From the entry sockwear
  • Nowhere else, as a court reporter, have I heard so much abusive interruption and blasphemous invocation from the public benches during the hearing of cases.1972, George MacDonald Fraser, The Steel Bonnets, page 152. From the entry bauchle
  • When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN. From the entry complacency
  • The first outbreak continued without any interruption at Manchouli and passed on to the other cities until its suppression in the following April.1922, Lien Teh Wu, “Plague in the Orient with Special Reference to the Manchurian Outbreaks”, in Addresses & Papers, Dedication Ceremonies…. From the entry Hailar
  • The political canvass had given freedom to his wings; he had learned to think on his feet, to meet interruption, to parry in debate.c. 1919, Elbert Hubbard, “Richard Cobden”, in Little Journeys, Volume 9: Great Reformers. From the entry think on one's feet
  • Bobo, ignoring this interruption, "very keerful."1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass. From the entry keerful
  • In my opinion, this is no more annoying than many office interruptions — watercooler gossip, phones ringing in the next cubicle, someone next door with an active cold, etc.2021 August 3, Sensitive in South Dakota [pseudonym], “Dear Abby”, in Times Record News, volume 115, number 82, page 4B. From the entry watercooler
  • What he meant is the kind of official unassailability we associate with royalty, a sense of being exempt from interruption and criticism rather than impervious to them.1999, James Trilling, “My Father and the Weak-Eyed Devils”, in The American Scholar, volume 68, number 2, The Phi Beta Kappa Society…. From the entry unassailability
  • In order not to introduce a hefsayk (interruption) in the Zemirot section, some Sephardic congrgations recite the hymn either before Barukh She'amar or after the repetition of the Amidah.1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 130. From the entry hefsek
  • This was Mary Farley who testified that at the time the research interviewer reached her home she was entertaining company and that she was “ired” by the interruption.1968, “H. P. Wasson and Company”, in Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, volume 170, page 298. From the entry ire
  • A further interesting point was that when an individual experiences an external interruption in the preceding hours they significantly increase their chances of initiating a self-interruption in the subsequent hour.2022, Gloria Mark, Multitasking in the Digital Age, Springer International Publishing, page 121. From the entry self-interruption

Meaning of interruption

  1. noun The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
  2. noun The act of breaking into someone else’s speech.
  3. noun A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.

Full definition of interruption

Questions about interruption in a sentence

How do you use interruption in a sentence?
Interruption is used as a noun. For example: “She grew exasperated by his constant interruptions.”
What is a short sentence with interruption?
“A gentle bring-bring sounded with interruption.”
What does interruption mean?
Interruption means the act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: interruption (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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