Sample Sentences for
interlude
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  • The song sparrow, who knows how brief and lovely life is, says, "Sweet, sweet, sweet interlude; sweet, sweet, sweet..."  (source)
    interlude = a short period with an activity different than that occurring during longer periods before or after it
  • There was a riotous interlude while posters were ripped from the walls, banners torn to shreds and trampled underfoot.  (source)
    interlude = short period
  • The eventual recognition of the heroine's superior virtue, her loyalty through the most terrible trials, even uncontracted as she is, and the downfall of her rival, culminating in the longawaited clientage contract and ten minutes of triumphant singing and dancing, the last of eleven such interludes over four separate episodes.†  (source)
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  • Whoever had been with Maxon recently couldn't help but gush about their little interlude.†  (source)
  • And yet, in the interludes, we forgot.†  (source)
  • Of those fine cavaliers, the young Dons, Pedro and Sebastian, were on the closer terms with me; and hence the interluding questions they occasionally put, and which are duly answered at the time.†  (source)
  • Then, after a satisfactory interlude of silence, she relaxed again.†  (source)
  • This was embarrassing, especially since my dreams weren't even full-blown nightmares but only troubled interludes where my mother was working late and stranded without a ride—sometimes upstate, in some burned-out area with junked cars and chained dogs barking in the yards.†  (source)
  • Actually, I'm what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker—a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten: not bad, but not particularly good either.†  (source)
  • Ed chose his music carefully, his dances having an opening act of excitement and greeting, a middle of pulsating, very danceable songs interspersed with romantic interludes, and then the inevitable ending.†  (source)
  • I regretted saying it—I really did—but I think even if I hadn't, our happy little interlude would have come to an end.†  (source)
  • Even these brief interludes are almost too strenuous for me.†  (source)
  • Interlude  (source)
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