Example sentences for: hiatus

How can you use “hiatus” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After a brief hiatus, the Standard returns to China bashing.

  • The Nao trade route continued until the early 1800s, when José María Morelos y Pavón, a hero of Mexico’s War of Independence, took over Acapulco and stopped the trade, sending the town into a century-long respite, a hiatus that ended only when the Mexican government paved the highway between Mexico City and Acapulco.

  • The author of the cover story, a former child prodigy, describes his return to piano-playing after a decadelong hiatus.

  • After a hiatus of 30 years, Christmas Day was restored as a public holiday in Cuba, but Trabajadores attacked state-run shops for stocking Christmas decorations and denounced Santa Claus as "the leading symbol of the hagiography of US mercantilism."

  • Wolff relishes the many deceits and indiscretions he commits in his pursuit of Internet riches and, after this brief hiatus, he redoubles his efforts to hoodwink the financier-partners he believes are out to swindle him.


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