Sentence examples for than to interrupt from inspiring English sources

I knew better than to interrupt.

If you are heatedly debating food choices with a companion when someone of marginal importance tries to call you, the phone will know better than to interrupt.

She'd left America alone, a spinster, and was bringing home a penniless partner who gave her pleasure, saw to her comfort and knew better than to interrupt her at her desk: in other words, a wife who happened to be a man.

In the context of a busy clinic that often provides a multitude of maternal and child health and other services, it is much easier for a provider to give an injection or a package of oral contraceptives than to interrupt the rhythm of work flow to provide counseling and insertion of an IUD.

Shoppers were more willing than ever to interrupt their Christmas Day revelry for some online bargain-hunting this year, delivering a festive boost for retailers.

But the Florida native saw something different at Jacob's Ladder and tried harder than ever to interrupt patterns in his life and finally put an end to his drug use.

At the Players Championship earlier this month, Singh, the only player other than David Duval to interrupt Tiger Woods's reign as the world's No. 1 player, spoke of resorting to painkillers and muscle relaxers for relief from back spasms.

If you don't do this, there's a decent chance they will simply leave in frustration rather than try to interrupt your monologue.

I only have to pause my voracious feed scrolling for a split-second to Like a funny quip or pretty picture, rather than having to interrupt my flow to open the feedback controls.

When the microphone is finally his, the Senator from Texas who is better placed than anyone possibly to interrupt the Donald Trump juggernaut and claim first place in the Iowa caucuses in Iowa when voters across the state will express their preferences for presidential candidates from both parties, first attempts a joke, but it seems tired too.

Rather than enable employees to interrupt each others' work with incessant questions, pings and calendar invites, the company enforces "office hours". Office hours for experts are scheduled one day a week for three hours.