How to Use interregnum in a Sentence

interregnum

noun

• If the king’s death cannot be imagined, there can be no interregnum.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 10 Nov. 2020
• This interregnum could be rife with abuses.
  — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 24 June 2026
• War would, of course, be inevitable, but the interregnum between wars would be lengthened.
  — Steven Simon, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
• In that interregnum, from one number to another, time can stand still.
  — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 11 May 2026
• Maybe the movies are on life support, slogging through some long interregnum, waiting for some new, fresh form to replace it.
  — John Semley, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
• The post-Cold War era has given way to an uneasy interregnum in which great-power rivalry grows.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
• Charli might just be in a low-stakes, post-breakthrough interregnum, exploring whims without putting too much pressure on herself.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
• That makes the current interregnum the ideal time for escalation.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2024
• For those whose politeness is ingrained, courtesy won’t be much affected by the social interregnum.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2021
• Furthermore his interregnum between full-time roles started at the beginning of the pandemic through to last week.
  — Peter High, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• And Soto-Martinez said that there is some hope that even this interregnum period might not be as dire as the worst-case scenario suggests.
  — Nicholas Slayton, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
• For spring, on the clothing level, the brand’s design team made the most of the interregnum with charming reworkings of recognizable house codes.
  — Gráinne O'Hara Belluomo, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
• There was an interregnum, during which the fury over Chinese immigration seemed to be largely contained.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
• The two-week interregnum between the conference championships and the Super Bowl brought the rest of the drama.
  — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022
• That interregnum lasted barely two years before North Vietnamese troops rolled into Saigon and took over that whole country.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
• Back during the Steve Jobs interregnum, Tim Cook was running around the globe finding partners to make products.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2018
• Even if the next emanation is discovered within months, Tibetans face a perhaps two-decade interregnum while his successor comes of age.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026
• Sun Zhengcai, who had succeeded Mr Bo in Chongqing following a brief interregnum, was sacked.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• After a four-year interregnum, Putin’s ideological ally is back in the White House.
  — Michael McFaul, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
• The reemergence of his footage comes as Myanmar is once again living in the shadow of military rule, after a short interregnum under civilian government.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• With the rise of the Tang in the 7th century the shift to the Yangtze River which had occurred in the interregnum solidified.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2011
• Today, scientists scoop up lava or ash, fresh or ancient, around volcanoes — both during an eruption and in the interregnum between them — to identify subtle changes in chemical makeup.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2026
• During that interregnum, Mary endured personal calamity.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026
• Instead of the final act of Mueller’s investigation, the hearing is likely to feel like a strange interregnum, the in-between as Congress wrestles with how far and how long to press its own inquiries.
  — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 22 July 2019
• Naval inaction in the face of wide public interest only prolongs the interregnum aboard the USS Connecticut.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• The history of kare-kare is often traced to a 20-month interregnum in the 18th century when the British wrested Manila from the Spanish.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• Screen Auckland manager Matt Horrocks says the new stages were built to meet the growing demand of the past five years for studio space and quality content — despite the interregnum of the pandemic.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2022
• Noel was the first to leave; for years, Liam and the other members carried on as Beady Eye, in a sort of Britpop interregnum, before dissolving in 2014.
  — Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2017
• The first entry in his calendar for the interregnum was a week's R&R in Plains, working the telephone, pondering his briefing books and mending in flesh and spirit after 22 months on the road.
  — Peter Goldman, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
• Douglas draws the climbers like astronauts, specimens of brawn and brain, and the alpine competitions between nations, especially in the interregnum between the world wars, feel almost like a preview of the Cold War space race.
  — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2021