What is "intermissions"

Usage examples of "intermissions".

The troupers noticed one interesting thing about these audiences: there seemed to be a tradition in Hungary that pretzels were the only approved, accepted and fashionable snack to eat at intermissions of an entertainment.

The form it took was a series of savage blizzards which blew with all-too-brief intermissions from the third week in December until the middle of March.

The snow started to fall towards the end of November and kept on with only brief intermissions right through to the following April.

When the public came pouring out during intermissions to see the animals, they almost inevitably passed the hunger artist's cage and stopped there for a moment.

All the rest of that day and evening, up till bedtime, except for intermissions for meals and the afternoon conclave in the plant rooms, he kept at it, with no word or sign to give me a hint of what kind of trail he had found, if any.

After you left I sat in this chair twelve straight hours, with intermissions only for meals, using my brain on you.