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Pause
"Pause" in a Sentence (27 examples)
After an awkward pause, Bill took her by the hand and dragged her upstairs.
In music or speaking, a pause is frequently used for dramatic effect.
There was a momentary pause.
We should sometimes pause to think.
There was a short pause and the housewife said...
He spoke for ten minutes without a pause.
There was a momentary pause in the talk.
It's only manners to tackle all out a game that they have gone all out in creating. Pressing the pause button is just rude!
Let's take a short pause.
Pause the game.
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The general public could therefore have been forgiven for thinking that work on the new station had stopped. But pausing work on an active construction site of this size is not straightforward.
When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.
Tarry, pause a day or two.
pausing a while thus to herself she mused
She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’ ¶ ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough![…]What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
Will this affect HS2 and other major projects? [...] Work at the majority of sites has paused, although some staff may be present to ensure the safety and security of these sites and to make safety assessments. [...]
Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.
to pause a song, a video, or a computer game
Press Start at any time to pause the game.
Take time to pause.
If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.
to take pause
to give pause
And like a man to double buſsines bound, / I ſtand in pauſe where I ſhall firſt beginne, […]
The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, said on Sunday he would have “great pause” about granting a pardon or commutation to Ghislaine Maxwell while another House Republican said it should be considered as part of an effort to obtain more information about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.
Teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
He [Paul] is full of the Matter he treats and writes with Warmth, which uſually neglects Method, and thoſe Partitions and Pauſes which Men educated in the Schools of Rhetoricians uſually obſerve.
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