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Example sentences for: hiatus

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After a Lewinsky-caused hiatus from health covers, Newsweek returns to its favorite subject.
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.
Tabloid staple Celine Dion, for one, "plans to make love like there's no tomorrow," according to the National Enquirer . With her husband-manager Rene Angelil's cancer in remission, Dion is taking a much-needed career hiatus to focus on getting pregnant--a plan that supposedly includes spending time "puttering around the kitchen because it makes her feel maternal."
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.
As a precondition of admission, the border with Gibraltar was reopened in February 1985, after a 16-year hiatus, and Spain was finally admitted to the EC in 1986.