interrupt

Example Sentences

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“Gate agents and flight crews are doing their very best. They can’t control weather, flight delays, mechanicals, and other things that interrupt our travel.”

From Barron's

When markets price crude oil, they must account for the risk that conflict, sabotage and terrorism will interrupt these flows.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Reminders of Him” could use a little more swooning, a little less of the endless middle stretch of driving and talking, interrupted by wet sprints through thunderstorms.

From Los Angeles Times

Many of them display puzzling fluctuations in brightness, brief increases in light that interrupt the expected smooth curve and hint that complex processes are unfolding within the expanding debris.

From Science Daily

Some workers complain that receiving calls and messages can interrupt their recordings, and having a phone strapped to their head is uncomfortable.

From Los Angeles Times