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Example sentences for "interval"

Lexicographically close words:
intertwine; intertwined; intertwining; intertwisted; interurban; intervale; intervales; intervals; intervene; intervened
  1. In the interval the Federalist party had disappeared, and practically the entire country, embracing Jeffersonian democracy, had passed through the school of the Republican party.

  2. After a brief interval he returned to Italy, living chiefly at Venice.

  3. After a few days a crisis is reached and an interval of two or three days is followed by a slighter return of fever and pain and an eruption resembling measles, the most marked characteristic of the disease.

  4. On his side Sir John French had made use of the interval to reform and tighten his line.

  5. After an interval of not more than six hours Dixmude was retaken, and the Belgians, advancing from Nieuport, took and entrenched themselves in Lombartzyde.

  6. Attack and counter-attack, varied in every interval of clearer weather by artillery duels, went on during week after week.

  7. Each battery had started from its station with full travel rations for forty-eight hours, which would tide over the interval required to set in operation a consolidated regimental mess.

  8. But this interval of good sense, as it may be short, is indeed but new.

  9. A considerable time elapsed before arrangements for publication were completed, the interval being marked by a temporary estrangement from Warburton and an unsuccessful candidature for the laureateship.

  10. I ought by right to let an interval of a quarter of a year elapse between each communication, and I will, in time; never fear me.

  11. I can hardly tell you how thankful I was, dear Laetitia, when, after that dreary and almost despairing interval of utter darkness, some gleam of daylight became visible to him once more.

  12. It was the room which, for many years, he shared with Branwell, and it was in that room that Branwell and his father died at an interval of twenty years.

  13. During the interval of silence, as during the half-hour of my narrative, his grin played on me like a searchlight.

  14. He should have no interval of safety in which to go in bathing, a hundred miles from the spot on which he had last been seen alive, not even to be drowned.

  15. Of the interval between taking the train at St.-Pierre, probably to go southward toward Bordeaux, and my waking on board the Auvergne I have as yet only such fragments of memory as one retains of dreams.

  16. In the interval too brief to reckon before turning round two possibilities were clear in my mind.

  17. Perhaps it was in reality advantageous to him, and tended to his eventual success, that he was thus perforce constrained to taste an interval of repose.

  18. That compassionate glance of the stern jailer intimated, as it seemed to him, the cause of the favour he had granted, in allowing the two friends a longer interval before they were parted.

  19. A short interval always elapsed between the departure of one soldier and the arrival of the other, and Maderon having observed this, undertook, in those moments, to file asunder the bars of the grate.

  20. In one of these he took a great fancy to Cheriton Lester during an interval between the latter's school and college life, and Cheriton being warned against him as a bad companion, stuck to him with equal perverseness and generosity.

  21. In 1741, we find Secker admonishing the clergy of the diocese of Oxford, that they were bound to administer thrice in the year, that there ought to be an administration during the long interval between Whitsuntide and Christmas.

  22. One thing,' the Bishop modestly suggests, 'might be done in all your parishes: a Sacrament might easily be interposed in that long interval between Whitsuntide and Christmas.

  23. The old custom had been to have, on Sundays and holy days, prayers at six, and the Litany at nine, followed after a few minutes' interval by the Communion service.

  24. It was an interval when much activity was displayed throughout the kingdom in the work of repairing and beautifying churches.

  25. An interval of religious tranquillity amounting almost to stagnation may have been not altogether unfavourable to a crisis when the fundamental axioms of Christianity were being reviewed and tested.

  26. We avail ourselves of the interval to notice other remarkable events, which happened during this eventful summer; and first, we must briefly revert to the conduct of Russia and England during the war.

  27. But the heart of Napoleon, like that of Alp, was too proud to profit by the interval of delay thus afforded to him.

  28. This force the Emperor divided into four corps, which were to leave Smolensk, placing a day's interval betwixt the march of each.

  29. Of course I make the best use of the interval and see all I can of the Palace.

  30. During the time-interval between the signatures shown in Nos.

  31. It could be that in the interval since she had seen him he had seen the woman who was to take him from her.

  32. Mittermaier, and indeed Bentham, have shown what an influence the interval between observation and announcement exercises on the form of exposition.

  33. And in jails it is frequently observed that after a long interval a series of suicides suddenly appear.

  34. In the interval everything was done to come to a private understanding with Charles.

  35. At length nearly all of the 200 were tied to the picket rope, and, after a sufficiently elapsed interval to regain their minds and strength, the same antics were gone through with again.

  36. After shaking hands with all of us he sat down, and after a short interval of silence the chief, through his interpreter, signified a desire to hear me reply.

  37. I observed the encounter of the lancers with our own troops (which I afterwards ascertained to be Riley's command), and after an interval the enemy's reserves advancing in great force.

  38. It is a fact that until Lamar delivered his eulogy on Sumner not a Southern man of prominence used language calculated to placate the North, and between Lamar and Grady there was an interval of fifteen years.

  39. Very well,' grumbled George, convinced by Harry's earnestness, but by no means pleased to be condemned to an interval of ignorance and inactivity.

  40. Then she intimated that she would return alone to The Derby Winner, and that Gabriel could follow after a reasonable interval of time had elapsed.

  41. In using an ordinal we direct our attention to a term of a series, while in using a cardinal we direct our attention to the interval between two terms.

  42. The graduation of a thermometer is determined by the freezing-point and the boiling-point of water, the interval between these being divided into a certain number of degrees, representing equal increases of temperature.

  43. The smallness of the interval between the boiling and freezing points is noteworthy.

  44. The stranger had left his hat in Mr Witherden's room, and seemed to have established himself in this short interval on quite a friendly footing.

  45. Wide as the interval between them was, however, they became rivals too soon.

  46. Incredible as it will seem, this interval of time that I spent in space has no sort of proportion to any other interval of time in my life.

  47. The first was: "I was mad to let the Grand Lunar know--" There was an interval of perhaps a minute.

  48. The second came after an interval of a week.

  49. There were whispered comments in the interval that followed.

  50. But in the interval Julia played a Chopin waltz that several of the girls especially liked, and followed this with a few chords of one of the choruses they had been learning, in which they all joined very heartily.

  51. The tree drains rapidly, the full supply of “milk” being generally obtained within a few hours, but an interval of several years usually elapses before it will yield a fresh supply.

  52. The corrected ranges for the various guns served by the instruments, either actual or automatically predicted for any interval of time, are constantly communicated to the various guns whose fire is being directed by the observation instrument.

  53. Brief as had been the interval since last he stood there, the changes were considerable.

  54. We have not, as you are aware, of late seen so much of each other as we used once; he has himself rather drawn off me, and I have left the interval between us to widen, without much regret.

  55. The stir and movement of the day were over, and that brief interval which separates the life of business from that of pleasure had succeeded.


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