How to Use hiatus in a Sentence

hiatus

noun
  • The band is making an album again after a five-year hiatus.
  • The show went on hiatus last year.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The show went on hiatus last year.
    — David Matthews, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The Spurs hit the hiatus on a high note.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Feb. 2026
  • When will the band end their hiatus and return to the stage?
    — Natalia Cano, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2026
  • With no one coming out for games, the league had gone on hiatus.
    — Daniel Brook, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • This year, the show was brought back after a three-year hiatus.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The longer this hiatus goes on, though, the more of that falls away, the more of us drift away.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Most had taken a hiatus from the app before they got banned.
    — Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
  • That project came about during the hiatus of Ballers.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 June 2026
  • So Scorsone could be on hiatus for months.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Porzingis spent most of the hiatus in his home country of Latvia.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 3 July 2020
  • The girls may be on hiatus, but this song will live on forever.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 27 June 2023
  • But the newsletter will be on hiatus the next two weeks.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • How long will Scorsone be on hiatus?
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • What may have broken Kim’s jeans hiatus?
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 7 May 2026
  • The lingerie brand's fashion show has been on hiatus for four years.
    — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 9 May 2023
  • The festival has been on a years-long hiatus.
    — Joshua Ceballos, Miami Herald, 13 May 2026
  • The hiatus wasn’t about rest as much as reckoning.
    — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The team will hold two week of practices before a one-week hiatus for spring break.
    — Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • After a two-year hiatus, the flu may be back this season – and with a vengeance.
    — Cady Stanton, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Even if all goes as planned, the hiatus will have lasted more than 16 months.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2021
  • The return follows the six-day hiatus.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • And pardon the slight hiatus the past couple of weeks in the mailbag.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2025
  • After a short hiatus, The Prompt is back!
    — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • After a four year hiatus, the show returned to Ibiza last fall.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The statement did not provide any details about how long the hiatus would last.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2026
  • During his hiatus, Jones found new ways to stay involved with the team.
    — Hannah Underwood, Dallas News, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Kim took a pre-planned two-year hiatus from the sport after Beijing.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The Jack-on-Jack guest spot comes after a two-week hiatus.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026

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