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Example sentences for "interruptions"

Lexicographically close words:
interrupted; interrupter; interrupters; interrupting; interruption; interrupts; interscholastic; intersect; intersected; intersecting
  1. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced.

  2. A month after the above-mentioned note in the Journal, Tolstoi made a rough sketch of his story, Hadji Murad, on which he worked with interruptions until 1904.

  3. The greatest number of interruptions in the entries was caused by ill health, sometimes also by intensive work and sometimes on account of spiritual depression.

  4. With their slender means the two women found it impossible to meet the interruptions and exactions of sight-seers at their home, so this too had something to do with the change of residence.

  5. There must have been frequent interruptions of work to allow its builders time to raise crops, or in some manner to procure their supplies of food.

  6. I hope to get up my strength in this delicious quiet, and have fewer interruptions to work from headache than I have been having since Christmas.

  7. Is it not all the very core and heartbeat of what we call "romance," that endearing convention that submits the harsh realities and interruptions of life to a golden purge of fancy?

  8. The arrangement of these and other articles, with occasional interruptions from Mrs Delvile, fully employed the evening.

  9. This coining operation goes on at the rate of 60 or 70 strokes per minute; and with very few interruptions during the whole day.

  10. These he hastily scratches down on scraps of paper, and next morning arranges them, or, in his own phrase, instruments them, amid the renewed interruptions of his visitors.

  11. There were numerous interruptions at first, but later in the day the stream of wagons became almost continuous.

  12. They would thus explain the interruptions of consciousness as the interruptions in the light of a lamp.

  13. Such vexatious interruptions could not fail to excite the feelings of the country and to require the interposition of the Government.

  14. Conversation suffers from outside interruptions as much as from interrupting directly within the conversational group.

  15. Interrupting within the conversational group is perhaps the most insufferable of all impediments to rippling talk; and interruptions from without are quite as intolerable.

  16. And people who do permit these interruptions are not conversationalists; they are mere drivelers.

  17. The interruptions are frequent and long, and speakers who have no right by the rules to speak will attempt to hold forth.

  18. Music and revelry were continued day and night, with very few interruptions by violence.

  19. The Company and the country (synonymous terms) continued to improve, with occasional interruptions by the Apaches, until the beginning of 1861, when the reverberations of the gun fired at Sumter were heard in the Arizona mountains.

  20. The troops were in motion before three, and though the length of the march did not exceed three miles, the halts and interruptions were so numerous and frequent, that they did not arrive on the beach of St. Cas till nine.

  21. In spite of interruptions and seeming exceptions, it is towards this that the entire confluence of forces and beings gravitates and slowly advances.

  22. He says, papa, that it is easier to get on when you have all your books about you--and when you can arrange all your way of living for that, instead of the interruptions at home.

  23. Oh, there are too many interruptions at home?

  24. Perhaps a famous comedy dumb act is selected, with the intention of getting the audience back in its seats without too many conspicuous interruptions of what is going on on the stage.

  25. Inject motive into the interruptions if you can; but in any event, keep your characters moving.

  26. They went through the act once more with a myriad of interruptions from Mr. Producer, who insisted on getting things right the very first time, and then he knocked off, calling it a day's work.

  27. A few days later when Mr. Author arrived at the rehearsal hall, there were three strange men facing the company, who were going through the act for the first time without interruptions from Mr. Producer.

  28. He was not anxious that her husband arrive and find him so employed, and was glad to restore Mrs. Meredith to her nest of pillows without interruptions from without.

  29. Constant interruptions owing to Honor's popularity, had the effect of driving him into his accustomed aloofness of manner tinged with aggressiveness towards offending persons.

  30. He was too idle to remonstrate: and theirs was an union as widely removed from the interruptions of bickerings and jealousies, as from the confidence, esteem, and endearments of affection.

  31. This speech, interlarded with many oaths, had also frequent interruptions from the effects of his inebriety, so that my chaise was announced just as he spoke the last word.

  32. From this time he worked hard at his Chronique, with occasional interruptions in his retreat to fulfil missions in France, or to visit the Burgundian court.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interruptions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.