How to Use interlude in a Sentence

interlude

noun

• She left for a brief interlude.
• They always met in the city for their romantic interludes.
• He has resumed his acting career after a two-year interlude.
• The best bits are the interludes for Pard, her new black-and-white cat.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 May 2018
• These brief interludes aren’t about just catching your breath.
  — Allison Palmer august 19, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• Sometimes there will be an interlude of a couple of years of peace.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 12 Apr. 2018
• Both provide a quiet interlude at the end of a long day.
  — Jamie Gold, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• And so what should have been a mere summer interlude became a whole life.
  — Ron Charles | The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
• And her music interlude paved the way for success on the screen.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 11 Feb. 2026
• My two-hour interlude passed all too quickly, but the pianist played on.
  — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
• These interludes are brief but shine far more brightly than the book’s essays.
  — Marisa Meltzer, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
• For a brief interlude this spring, the two best pitchers in the world wore the same uniform.
  — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2026
• Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 31 Dec. 2017
• Along the way, there was an over-the-top, head-scratching marching band interlude and a bloody brawl.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
• But the crowds that await interludes of good weather to rush for the summit can be just as deadly.
  — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
• Link walks up on their romantic interlude, shocked to find the love of his life in a major lip lock.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2021
• That interlude marked the height of the Dot Com frenzy.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 13 May 2026
• There was something so freeing about that interlude.
  — Giana Levy, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
• Her ballads were torch-song interludes that could have knocked them dead in lounges a century ago.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2025
• But there aren’t enough such quirky interludes, in a show taking few risks and exhibiting no depth.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2018
• For most young workers, such stays will be interludes in their lives, Thompson said.
  — Yucheng Tang, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• This is all set to musical interludes, mostly of folk-pop.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2025
• Soon, though, the song slowed to a gospel-style interlude before swelling again to a joyous crescendo.
  — Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2022
• This interlude is quite the tease, so be sure to press play on the full version and get your house/dance on and set the streets on fire.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 11 Nov. 2020
• Interlude-19 is about…this period in our lives that is like an interlude.
  — Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2021
• But even the interlude between the two waves produced damage.
  — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 27 Apr. 2011
• And the lovely lyrical interlude lacks the subtle mood shifts that others find in this piece.
  — Barbara Jepson, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2018
• This is not the longest interlude between homicides in the city in recent months.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
• But such interludes add up to small specks of stormclouds in the show’s otherwise sunny skies.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 2 June 2026
• Some of these interludes of creative clash are funny, but the joke runs dry fairly quickly.
  — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026