intermission

He promptly explained the situation, breaking early for intermission.

After a long intermission, they have once again become true detectives—storytellers in search of the truth.

Like, if there was an intermission at dirty movies, so you could go get your Goobers—or Raisinets, for that matter.

As a debate, this was a sideshow, 90 minutes of stilted silliness, an intermission interrupting the real deal.

American Jews thought they had earned a kind of moral intermission that Portnoy seemed not to be respecting.

A long, portable cage had been put together on the stage during the intermission, and within it the ten pacing beasts.

The bromides were then ordered, and taken without intermission for periods which will subsequently be detailed.

The burglar entered the room without noise, and the heavy breathing of the sleeper continued without intermission.

It might be expected to continue without intermission for two or three weeks, and would make a quick end of the sledding.

Before the exercises of the forenoon were concluded, she was summoned to see a visitor, and did not reappear before intermission.