Sentence examples for interrupted sentence from inspiring English sources

To show this interruption, you can use a dash at the end of the interrupted sentence, provide the sentence that is interrupting the original speaker, and consider using a dash at the beginning of the sentence if it is picked up again.

The area he's chosen is responsible for co-ordinating the muscles that produce speech, hence my interrupted sentence.

Staccato, interrupted sentences; an unlikely combination of romanticism and irony; incantatory repetitions; the repeated use of quotation marks (critic Hendrick Hertzberg described her "deploying them like a pair of surgical tweezers") - all became part of an immediately recognisable technique.

The metaphor that holds the poem together is of communication interrupted, a sentence dissolving into "a fount of broken type"; "Why can't I escape?

If the law had its say, it was interrupted mid-sentence — or, rather, pre-sentencing.

He yearned to set his mind afloat in a dialogue with itself, but he never disowned the events of his life that interrupted his sentences.

As the cable guy cut my connection, a guy describing his fetish for smelly feet was interrupted mid-sentence.

When using a dash in terms of explanations or listings in a formal paper, it is recommended to rearrange the sentence so that a colon could be used instead; dashes tend to interrupt the sentence, which is not the desired tone of a formal paper.

In the preceding paragraph, I used a pair of dashes to interrupt a sentence and insert supplementary material that gave the question meaning or -- to writers, at least -- urgency.

Below are a few examples of em dashes used to interrupt sentences: Deborah — who was nineteen — still loved the swings at the local park.

The jail sentence interrupted Jared's trajectory.