intermission

Example Sentences

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The compact nature of the production, performed without intermission in just over 90 minutes, awkwardly exposes the melodrama that Ibsen took great pains to undercut.

From Los Angeles Times

There were multiple intermissions, but those became part of the show as well, as there was no set time limit.

From Los Angeles Times

Audience members are naturally Bacharach fans, and the show, which runs about two hours with an intermission, doles out the great hits lavishly, beginning with all three singers performing “Always Something There to Remind Me.”

From The Wall Street Journal

If I didn’t wow them, the theater would be completely empty after intermission, and my opera career would’ve ended before it began.

From Literature

From August through November, we move from my mom’s to mine to my siblings’, with only a brief intermission before my dad’s rolls around in April.

From Salon