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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "hiatus" in a sentence

    hiatus example sentences

    hiatus


    1. The station café was virtually empty, enjoying a hiatus before the arrival of the next intercity express


    2. Later that night, when the coast was clear the suburban hiatus by the oak tree was just a distant memory, the soldier stood on Harrow hill and gazed out across his new world horizon


    3. Later that night, when the coast was clear the suburban hiatus by


    4. Just the sedate activities each or several together of the company enjoyed during the hiatus from their on-going mysteries


    5. "How's the investigation going?" asked Danny, breaking the hiatus that followed


    6. Taking full advantage of the hiatus, Darkburst tucked his injured leg up into his side and ran from the pack as fast as he could


    7. Howard-Smythe, only recently returned after a brief hiatus, setting up our next little operation, announced that there were several gentlemen waiting to speak to the CO


    8. But then, after a short hiatus, I had to give a qualified answer! “I think not!”


    9. During that nine-month hiatus, I located a new employer in Chicago, Budget Rent a Car


    10. I can only speculate as to what alien creatures and environments you encountered during your hiatus from the ocean region

    11. The tragic tale of wayward Joe is currently on hiatus


    12. Steve Baker (Strat) Elvin Stanley (Chippers) Charles Clark (Nobby) and Wayne Logan (Sticks) more famously known as ‘Fossils,’ are four musicians from varying background who are inadvertently united and form a band with a unique and exciting sound that filled an auditory hiatus that has been lacking for decades in the modern day music industry


    13. They were in a hiatus from engagement and no one looked up to see our seven birds flit past


    14. After that period, there was a hiatus when troubles and politics at home and in the satellite colonies, which resulted in a civil war, which made the Anuki homeland and settlements vulnerable to opportunistic aggressors


    15. The parties agreed to a half year hiatus during which the technical and accounting teams would hammer through the details


    16. program for military academy students on their summer hiatus looked up at the young man who had been ushered into his office


    17. I didn’t plan the seven-year hiatus but everything else was calculated including my father’s death


    18. Marie made it clear that their hiatus was only


    19. It was becoming clear that his problem wasn’t just his surfing hiatus


    20. In the joints of change hiatus, a malingering sense of no direction

    21. For a start, he was now making considerable and quite rapid progress in his research after the recent hiatus, and there was now no doubt the he and his team had repositioned the UK at the very forefront of the work being done internationally into the future development of nuclear fusion


    22. It was an unusual hiatus which


    23. There was a pause that Anderson thought might lengthen into a complete hiatus


    24. After a hiatus, when I returned into her ardent arms, she told me that in the meantime she had conceived my child but was constrained to get it aborted


    25. And that would have put paid to the Nehruvian Dynasty in the normal course but then India had to contend with the Italian Sonia, Rajiv’s power-hungry wife, who, after a short hiatus as a widow, took the reins of the Indira Congress


    26. During the 3-day hiatus of air traffic last September, the average DTR was a little over 1E°C


    27. “I realize we don’t have much time now, to explore and further our budding friendship, but once the main part of this tour is over in a couple of weeks, and we take a month’s hiatus until Keith’s youngest child is born, I’d like to meet with you again


    28. In sucha case hiatus (see below)


    29. Hiatus is the breaking up into two syllables of vowel combinationsin adjacent words capable of


    30. the following asexamples of hiatus is to be phonetically unsound:

    31. Hiatus most frequently occurs to avoid the greater cacophonywhich would arise from stress-shift


    32. Lack of hiatus would here produce a stress-shift resulting inan unharmonious stressing of two


    33. In these two examples instead of hiatus there is synalepha withstress-shift, but we have to do


    34. In some instances hiatus seems to occur for no other reasonthan to preserve the verse-measure:


    35. In general hiatus is most likely to occur before the principalrhythmic stress in a verse; that is,


    36. It's just on an extended hiatus while she's distracted, and the debate will most likely pick right back up that evening or the next day or the day after, and she will have had time to come up with new arguments and he'll have had time to think about how soft her skin is and how good it tastes when it's sweaty


    37. Berlin came out hard after the short hiatus, but Kline was up to the challenge


    38. hiatus might constitute a useful device should an author ever undertake to recount his story


    39. ( b) Hiatus is usual when the initial vowel of the secondword has a strong accent (usually the


    40. Footnote 30: (return) Note the example of hiatus in this older Spanish

    41. hiatus betweenthe half-lines; but instead of grouping the lines in quatrainswith monorime, as the


    42. Footnote 36: (return) There is hiatus here


    43. hurried through the hiatus between two columns, and had to stop


    44. Trees flew past them until a hiatus appeared


    45. hiatus of the musty, green cloth


    46. nothing but a hiatus that would never be filled again


    47. Congress is not in session right now, and he and Nancy are taking advantage of the hiatus by spending two full weeks on this six-hundred-acre mountaintop property


    48. By that point, he’d heard them all: academic hiatus, indefinite leave, not the right fit … His surname, with its intimations of largesse, encouraged each new school in the delusion that it might succeed where the others had failed


    49. Meanwhile the markets are in hiatus


    50. Meanwhile, as the market is in hiatus I am left feeling confused



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    Synonyms for "hiatus"

    foramen hiatus abatement reprieve respite suspension relief recess cessation delay interval postponement

    "hiatus" definitions

    an interruption in the intensity or amount of something


    a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)


    a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure