interrupting

Example Sentences

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Francisco Lermanda, a Chilean search-and-rescue worker, said that Venezuelan soldiers have constantly asked his team members for their documents while they are working, interrupting efforts to find survivors in the ruins of flattened buildings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

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

"By blocking DGAT2, we're interrupting the disease process at its root cause, stopping fat accumulation and inflammation right in the liver."

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

“Oh, please,” Jacob says, interrupting me for the second time.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan