interrupt

Example Sentences

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Should smoke interrupt that flow of charged particles, the alarm goes off.

From BBC

The tribunal was told a man waiting outside the consultation room interrupted and said: "He's not a patient, he's a doctor I've come to see."

From BBC

“Even milliseconds or seconds of interrupted blood flow to the brain can have serious consequences,” Dr. Altaf Saadi, a neurologist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, told us.

From Salon

“You cannot interrupt me when I am with a customer.”

From Literature

Unlike my recent trips there this one wasn’t interrupted by mass demonstrations on behalf of persecuted Muslims.

From The Wall Street Journal