How to Use interrupted in a Sentence

interrupted

adjective

• If the peel break, then there is calamity ahead, and an interrupted love.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
• The last two times the Rams held joint practices with the Las Vegas Raiders, fights interrupted or ended the workouts.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Number one, Netflix was the first platform where a comic could put their special on and it wasn’t interrupted or walled off.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 19 Dec. 2023
• In the two months since Hamas attacked Israel, all Gazans have suffered from the barely interrupted onslaught of Israeli forces.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
• During the interrupted scene, select audience members happened to be seated on stage for a town hall, causing some in the crowd to think the protesters were part of the show.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
• The Marvel star shared a clip of him trying to meditate while underwater — but the moment was adorably interrupted when one of his 8-year-old twin sons swam by.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023
• First released by Columbia Records, these 12-inch discs could play up to 21 minutes of interrupted music per side.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
• For the uninitiated, the style is comprised of an un-interrupted string of gemstones or diamonds, encircling the neck.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2022
• Resenting him every night for your interrupted sleep is one step closer to divorce.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
• In such an environment, children are able to concentrate and work on skills in an interrupted fashion.
  — Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
• Then again, so much of this drama about interrupted lives, unexpected detours, and attempts at (re)connection requires a deep reading between the lines.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2023
• This being a sequel that feels the need to one-up its predecessor, those shenanigans have escalated from interrupted wedding ceremonies to shootouts with the Cuban coast guard.
  — Michael Nordine, Variety, 25 Aug. 2023
• Machines that normally run around the clock for proteomics, the study of cell structures for biomedicine, were interrupted and new control studies for drug discovery were paused.
  — Catherine Stupp, WSJ, 3 July 2023
• Chronic Pain Individuals with chronic pain—which is pain that lingers beyond three months—often don’t get enough sleep or complain of interrupted sleep.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 6 Aug. 2023
• In addition to the checks, which compensate for everything from the hassle of living with powerful odors to the financial hit of several months of interrupted businesses and lost income, comes a slip of paper – a 1099 tax form.
  — Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2024
• Part of it may be caused by an influx of $190 billion in federal pandemic recovery funds aimed at catching kids up after several years of interrupted schooling.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2022
• Experts on crowd safety said rigorous contingency plans are needed in case an event has to be postponed, canceled, interrupted, or evacuated due to the weather.
  — Diana Baptista, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2024
• Earlier this month, fighting interrupted power supply to the plant for half a day, forcing staff to activate backup generators.
  — Hanna Arhirova, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• In other words, the genetic fingerprint produced by interrupted transcription is the same as that produced by aging, suggesting that the two are intimately connected.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• The victim told authorities a male suspect fired several shots during an interrupted catalytic converter theft before leaving the scene.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• Many books by survivors’ children and grandchildren seek to present Jewish history and community after the Holocaust as somehow both interrupted and continuous.
  — Lily Meyer, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• With Herro at the top of his offensive game, and with an anticipation that Jimmy Butler will receive clearance for an interrupted return from his knee pain, the priority with Oladipo likely will remain his defensive disruptiveness.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2023
• For Catherine Corless, the single shoe symbolizes the interrupted childhoods that have become her life’s work, transforming her from a near-recluse finding diversion in local history into a reluctant but resolute conscience of Ireland.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• Normal practice flow becomes interrupted for a game situation.
  — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Renovations will begin later in 2023—in phases, so existing dining options will remain interrupted.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 5 Jan. 2023
• Palestinian identity was a mounting grievance against Zionist incursion and imperial fiat—an interrupted, frustrated modernizing project in its own right.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
• Still, a second interrupted football season would have major repercussions, major financial consequences.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 July 2021
• During that strike, workers allegedly destroyed railroad company property and interrupted service.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024