intermission
Example Sentences
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Audience members are naturally Bacharach fans, and the show, which runs about two hours with an intermission, doles out the great hits lavishly, beginning with all three singers performing “Always Something There to Remind Me.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
From August through November, we move from my mom’s to mine to my siblings’, with only a brief intermission before my dad’s rolls around in April.
From Salon • Feb. 3, 2026
"He managed to convince the marching band - a huge deal at American universities - to come and play in the intermission between singles and doubles matches," Ram told BBC Sport.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
But the intermission that the set change demands seems like an intrusion in a play that could do without the realistic detail.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026
If I didn’t wow them, the theater would be completely empty after intermission, and my opera career would’ve ended before it began.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Vocabulary lists containing intermission
Reading: Literature - Drama - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Middle School
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