INTERLUDE in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for INTERLUDE, such as:

1. Mademoiselle played a soft interlude.
2. Kerensky has a place in history, of a brief interlude between despotisms.
3. The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
4. And, except for her brief honeymoon interlude, she had not had fun in so long.
5. It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTERLUDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
interlude
 n.  a short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting; intervening episode, feature, or period of time
Classic Sentence:
1  And, except for her brief honeymoon interlude, she had not had fun in so long.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
2  During the interlude of music which succeeded the TABLEAUX, the actors had seated themselves here and there in the audience, diversifying its conventional appearance by the varied picturesqueness of their dress.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
4  When this interlude was over, Captain Mayhew began a dark story concerning Moby Dick; not, however, without frequent interruptions from Gabriel, whenever his name was mentioned, and the crazy sea that seemed leagued with him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
5  As, after this interlude, the seamen resumed their work upon the jacket of the whale, many strange things were hinted in reference to this wild affair.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
6  Mademoiselle played a soft interlude.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXI
7  Gradually and imperceptibly the interlude melted into the soft opening minor chords of the Chopin Impromptu.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXI
8  The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
9  We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an austere interlude in a mournful drama.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
10  This was not his choosing, but the crime of this happy-go-lucky nation which goes blundering along with its Reconstruction tragedies, its Spanish war interludes and Philippine matinees, just as though God really were dead.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
11  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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
Example Sentence:
1  Kerensky has a place in history, of a brief interlude between despotisms.