How to Use interval in a Sentence

interval

noun

• The sun shone for brief intervals throughout the day.
• There might be long intervals during which nothing happens.
• There will be a 20-minute interval between acts one and two.
• Most of the gain is due between the 20th and the last day of the month; price has risen 67% of the time in that interval.
  — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• So for the sequence xn = {α log n}, the points seem to cluster to the left of the interval between 0 and 1.
  — Christopher Lutsko, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2024
• The monthly histogram shows that the first six months in any year have been a strong time interval.
  — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• The people munch on snacks throughout the day with intervals of big meals.
  — Zoe Li, CNN, 2 May 2023
• After a very British interval, the band started the second half of the show with a tricky translucent screen at the front of the stage.
  — Brad Auerbach, SPIN, 18 Oct. 2023
• Dog teams will take off in two-minute intervals for an 11-mile ride across town.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2023
• Much cooler and breezy with intervals of clouds and sun.
  — Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023
• The oil change interval is up to 3000 miles, and the number of grease fittings has been reduced to zero.
  — Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2023
• But this interval might not have endured for the entirety of the Marinoan.
  — Byadam Mann, science.org, 4 Apr. 2023
• Fireworks, fire spits and smoke rose from the stage at various intervals of each set.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2023
• The second method breaks the motion of the falling object into very short time intervals.
  — WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
• The minimum interval between the initial shot and the booster has been shortened to three months from six.
  — Raffaele Huang, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
• In that interval, there have been four prime ministers — each having resigned — with a fifth on the way.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• The large red-hand graphic stayed displayed, and the gap in chimes lengthened slightly to four-second intervals.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2024
• Once the kernels are popping in 2-second intervals, the popcorn is ready.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
• If the procedures cannot be performed a day apart, how long is too long an interval between them?
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2023
• The system had planned the closure for years, but families said they weren’t notified in the interval.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2023
• Humid with intervals of clouds and sun; a thunderstorm in spots in the afternoon.
  — The Enquirer, 26 July 2023
• Saguaro cacti rose cartoon-like and in regular intervals across the landscape and all around us.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
• For some, the interval between Covid bouts is amazingly short.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 27 Dec. 2022
• At 37 The program also hones your ability to hold harder, faster paces for longer and longer intervals.
  — Currie Engel, Women's Health, 9 Apr. 2023
• Shortly after the play’s interval, the house lights come on and the audience is invited to ask questions about the play’s central theme.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• Keep stragglers in line by setting an alarm clock or timer to ring at strategic intervals, like 10 minutes before the bus comes.
  — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2023
• The groups were paired based on age, gender, and time interval between vaccination and exposure to the virus later on, the study said.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2024
• This includes the timing of a puff, the number of puffs the person took, the puff volume, how long a puff took, what the interval was between puffs, and the total smoking duration.
  — Brian Mastroianni, Health, 28 Feb. 2023
• The Love Hard star is a big fan of high-intensity interval workout sessions.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 3 Feb. 2023
• Most vital, says Corral, was the shoot’s length: 25 1/2 weeks, split in two blocks in Spain, separated by an interval, and one week in India.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 14 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024