How to Use interlude in a Sentence

interlude

noun
  • She left for a brief interlude.
  • They always met in the city for their romantic interludes.
  • He has resumed his acting career after a two-year interlude.
  • This interlude is quite the tease, so be sure to press play on the full version and get your house/dance on and set the streets on fire.
    Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Press PLAY on the video at the top of the post to hear what else the actors had to say about filming the intimate interlude.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 24 June 2024
  • But the crowds that await interludes of good weather to rush for the summit can be just as deadly.
    The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Soon, though, the song slowed to a gospel-style interlude before swelling again to a joyous crescendo.
    Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2022
  • And so what should have been a mere summer interlude became a whole life.
    Ron Charles | The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
  • Link walks up on their romantic interlude, shocked to find the love of his life in a major lip lock.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The Fifth Harmony alum comes in for a rap interlude naked on a round platform.
    Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 16 July 2021
  • My two-hour interlude passed all too quickly, but the pianist played on.
    Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
  • To me, this is still the most eye-opening revelation of the strange Trump interlude.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • The evening includes a brief mid-set interlude where Wonder rests his voice and a 30-person gospel choir fills in for a few songs.
    Caryn Rose, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024
  • And now, after this interleague interlude, the Giants turn their sights back to the NL West.
    Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 June 2021
  • This is not the longest interlude between homicides in the city in recent months.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Most of what’s new in the script amounts to extensions of the comic interludes, and some of these attempts to spice up the proceedings fall a bit flat.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • Interlude-19 is about…this period in our lives that is like an interlude.
    Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2021
  • For most young workers, such stays will be interludes in their lives, Thompson said.
    Yucheng Tang, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
  • The best of the interludes was before the finale, with Gaga at her most melodramatic.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2024
  • Instead, the drive carries the couple through a series of dreamy interludes.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The third and final season cranked up the romance and humor (an All-4-One interlude at a wedding?
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 24 June 2021
  • The interlude with the kayakers, though, reminded him of what was missing.
    Brian Murphy, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2020
  • In the film, Dorothy leaves the island after her romantic interlude with Hermie and writes him a farewell note.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The beaming members urged fans watching the show to clap and sing along to the classic number, and the sharpness of their dance during the interlude also caught the eye.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Take a minute to soothe yourself with this video interlude produced for the Sierra Club Artist Series.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
  • These light interludes speak to the politics of Blackness too.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The PowerPoint is the weird interlude three quarters of the way through that is actually kind of groovy.
    Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
  • There are Olympian battle scenes and brawls, as well as tense, quiet interludes in between.
    Vulture, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Daniel Roth, LinkedIn’s editor-in-chief, says the games are designed to be played a little bit each day, perhaps when the day begins or as a short interlude between projects.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The backstage interlude evokes both the glamour of movies and the glamour of making movies — how both the product and production in Hollywood is aspirational.
    Kathryn Vandervalk, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'interlude.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: