interrupt
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interrupt
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Synonyms: Verb
break in, chime in, chip in [chiefly British], cut in, interpose, intrude
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Examples of interrupt in a Sentence
Verb
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.
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Madrid and the surrounding areas were hit by the intermittent storm throughout the day that caused flight delays, flooded tunnels and parking lots and interrupted subway services. — Fox News, "Madrid area inundated by severe rain, hail storm that spawned dramatic flooding," 27 Aug. 2019 Trump hated being interrupted during his morning toilet. — Rob Long, National Review, "From The Adventures of Donald J. Trump, Private Detective," 22 Aug. 2019 No one wants police to keep interrupting people’s evening strolls. — The Economist, "Why Macau is impervious to the turmoil in Hong Kong," 22 Aug. 2019 These phonons create feedback in the form of tiny acoustic waves, which in turn interrupt the original light waves. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "How Scattering Light Could Power a Microchip Revolution," 20 Aug. 2019 That politicians are, instead, chosen by voters is an inconvenient fact that keeps interrupting so many careers. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, "The Patriarchal Allure of The Family," 14 Aug. 2019 The Lesson: Split the room with smart furniture to double its use without interrupting visual flow. — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, "This Designer's NYC Apartment Has Big Texas Style (And an Even Bigger Backstory)," 13 Aug. 2019 Under its model, outbreaks of violent behavior are responded to with three common epidemic-control methods: interrupting transmission, containing the risk and changing community norms. — Michelle A. Williams And Mary T. Bassett, Twin Cities, "Williams, Bassett: Gun violence can be reduced with public health techniques," 5 Aug. 2019 Well before the debate, CNN announced a series of rules guiding both the format of the event and the behavior of the candidates, including a warning that candidates who interrupted each other would have their time cut. — Jeremy Barr, The Hollywood Reporter, "Candidates Avoid Criticizing CNN's "Abide by the Rules" Debate Moderation," 31 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Faced with out-of-bounds readings for the radar’s hardware, each CDU began to issue radar increment and decrement interrupts to the guidance computer—lots of interrupts. — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, "No, a “checklist error” did not almost derail the first moon landing," 5 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'interrupt.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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