interrupting

Example Sentences

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Its government created the fiscal space necessary to cope with disaster, mobilize financing, and rebuild, without missing a beat on its debt service or interrupting the remarkable compression in its cost of borrowing.

From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026

Multiple times throughout the session, one caregiver unwittingly demonstrated this dynamic when his wife kept interrupting the conversation off-screen to say she was going to church even though it was a Saturday afternoon.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026

“You get to the point where it’d be pointless to the Iranians to close it because they wouldn’t be interrupting anything and they’d just be cutting themselves off.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

When Tarun's grandmother died he traveled to India, interrupting the 18-year-old's studies.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

While I was busy glaring at Vonetta for interrupting me, Miss Marva Hendrix clapped her hands together and said, “That’s a marvelous subject for social studies. Right on!”

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia