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Example sentences for "interregnum"

Lexicographically close words:
interprovincial; interpterygoid; interracial; interradial; interred; interrelated; interrelation; interrelations; interrelationship; interrex
  1. His death was followed by an interregnum of two years, during which Ricimer ruled, though without the title of emperor.

  2. An interregnum of six months followed upon the death of Aurelian, till at length the senate, at the repeated solicitations of the army, ventured to fill up the vacant throne.

  3. After a turbulent interregnum of 12 years, he is succeeded by his son 14.

  4. But the interregnum was of brief duration, for, to our unspeakable horror, the bombardment was resumed at nine o'clock.

  5. Thus did the hours creep on until darkness with its interregnum of peace had fallen on the city.

  6. There was an interregnum of three weeks between the death of Alexander and the assumption of power by his second brother, Nicholas.

  7. The change of succession strengthened the revolutionists, and they employed the interregnum to organize a conspiracy for seizing the government.

  8. After a short interregnum temporarily filled by Pedro Sarrio, Jose Basco arrived in 1778.

  9. After a short provisional interregnum (during which Valenzuela, the Spanish minister, who had been banished to the Philippines by Charles II.

  10. One thing only dishonours this majestic interregnum of the nation--the temporary captivity of the king and his family.

  11. Beginning of the great interregnum in Germany.

  12. The soldiers, in their turn, refused, and thus for eight months an interregnum prevailed while this friendly contest continued.

  13. Upon the death of Numa an interregnum again followed; but soon afterward Tullus Hostilius, a Roman, was elected king.

  14. In a chapter on the Renaissance he writes as follows: "Our generation may look upon this period with interest, since it is itself threatened with an interregnum between Christian morality and the morality of science.

  15. Such a revolutionary interregnum as this will be deformed by every species of extravagance.

  16. For this interregnum in the sway of the Fujiwara, the Engi era is memorable.

  17. There thus appears to have been an interregnum of seven years.

  18. A similar interregnum had separated the accession of Tenchi from the death of his predecessor, the Empress Saimei, and both events were due to a cognate cause.

  19. I have since learned that astronomers have closely determined this period, and that Miss Clerke writes of this: "The entire millennium before the Christian era may count for an interregnum as regards pole-stars.

  20. The obvious fact that navigation must have been seriously impeded by the interregnum of Polaris, lasting for many centuries, would explain a prolonged isolation of America anterior to the Christian era.

  21. In summer and winter the communication by the lake is pretty regular; but during the interregnum between the seasons it is very uncertain.

  22. The rudeness of the crusaders threatened during the sixty years’ interregnum of the Latin dynasty, to undo the work of the Comneni.

  23. The desolating interregnum in Germany was also put an end to by the election of =Count Rudolf of Hapsburg=, A.

  24. During the interregnum that followed, the Protestant nobles formed a confederation, which before the election of a new king succeeded in obtaining a comprehensive religious peace, the =Pax dissidentium of A.

  25. Yet, despite this fact, the management of the colonies during the Interregnum was without unity or simplicity.

  26. Between the colonial and commercial activities of the later years of the Interregnum and the corresponding activities during the early years of the Restoration no hard and fast line can be drawn.

  27. Indeed, during the Interregnum colonial business was not well managed and there were many to whom colonial trade was of great importance, who realized this fact.

  28. Then they looked at each other, and the period of speculation was followed by a momentary interregnum of silence, which would in due course be succeeded by a desire to act, to do something, if nothing happened in the meantime.

  29. The interregnum had passed,--a time of storms and unrest the more terrible for the Commonwealth that it happened in a period of universal disaster.

  30. For a moment of sinful delight you destroy your interregnum of a hundred years of blessedness, and you, each of you, have delivered a blow at earthly immortality.

  31. The eye is as bright, the pulse as bounding, the heart as lively, the complexion as pure and lovely, the feelings as fresh, at the end of the interregnum as at its commencement.

  32. There was a short interregnum of silence after Winny's assenting rejoinder.

  33. There was a short interregnum of silence as the falconer turned his back on them, and till he was out of earshot.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interregnum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    break; disobedience; holiday; insubordination; interlude; intermezzo; intermission; intermittence; interruption; interval; license; lull; mutiny; pause; plateau; recess; relief; respite; unrestraint; vacation