Examples of “interrupt” in a Sentence

verb To break in on someone who is speaking or on an ongoing action.

• Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone.
• A power cut interrupted the broadcast halfway through.
• Sorry to interrupt, but your taxi has just arrived outside.

noun Computing: a signal that makes a computer pause its current task to deal with something more urgent.

• The keyboard sends an interrupt to the processor every time a key is pressed.
• The operating system handles each interrupt before returning to the program.
• A timer can generate an interrupt every few milliseconds.