Interrupts

"Interrupts" in a Sentence (10 examples)

A phone call often interrupts your conversation.

My son always interrupts me when I'm talking.

Imperious Prima flashes forth / Her edict "to begin it"— / In gentler tone Secunda hopes / "There will be nonsense in it!"— / While Tertia interrupts the tale / Not more than once a minute.

Then his plaintive tone / no more could Venus bear, but interrupts her son: / "Stranger", she answered, "whosoe'er thou be; / not unbeloved of heavenly powers, I ween, / thou breath'st the vital air, whom Fate's decree / permits a Tyrian city to have seen."

Just when you're busy doing nothing, someone goes and interrupts you.

Tom frequently interrupts others.

Tom interrupts Mary all the time.

In checkers tournaments, each player's reflection time, defined by the competition rules, is controlled by a special clock, with two dials, equipped with a mechanism that, activated by the player who has just made the move, interrupts his timing and starts (restarts) the opponent's timing.

Even a brief rest interrupts this strain; it unclogs the wheels of action.

She interrupts me non-stop.

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