PAUSE in a Sentence
Learn PAUSE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
229 example sentences for PAUSE, such as:
1. She paused a moment to consider.
2. We paused to marvel at the view.
3. There was a pause and a dead silence.
4. There was a brief pause in the conversation.
5. She paused to reflect on what she had achieved.
2. We paused to marvel at the view.
3. There was a pause and a dead silence.
4. There was a brief pause in the conversation.
5. She paused to reflect on what she had achieved.
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Meanings and Examples of PAUSE
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pause
n. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
n. temporary inactivity
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 There was a pause for a few moments, and then the low insidious sound was repeated.
2 Never mind, he continued, more brightly, after a pause.
3 That gave the animals pause, and there was a hush.
4 There was a pause, during which Mr. Utterson struggled with himself.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
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5 After this fourth encounter, there was a considerable pause; nor did it appear that any one was very desirous of renewing the contest.
6 A few minutes pause having been allowed, that the combatants and their horses might recover breath, Prince John with his truncheon signed to the trumpets to sound the onset.
7 Here he made a considerable pause, and Gurth had good hope that the last three pieces might escape the fate of their comrades; but the enumeration proceeded.
8 I see," said Wamba, after a short pause, "that the fool must be still the fool, and put his neck in the venture which wise men shrink from.
9 An awful pause of horror silenced each murmur of the armed spectators, who, for the space of several minutes, stirred not a finger, save to sign the cross.
10 Surely we will pause ere we give an office so high to one who shows evidently how little he reverences our blood, by his so readily undertaking this enterprise against Richard.
11 There was a pause; all eyes turned to Brain de Bois-Guilbert.
12 The trumpets again sounded, and there was a dead pause of many minutes.
13 There was a long pause of silence, a cold silence.
14 There was another pause, then another start; but more ineffectual than before.
15 There was a pause and a dead silence.
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 There was a brief pause in the conversation.
2 He slipped out during a pause in the conversation.
3 For a man who held that to take even an ant's life is evil , the offering of a million lives gives one pause.
4 There will be a brief pause in the proceedings while the piano is moved into place.
5 There was a long pause for reflection, and then Tom said: "Lookyhere, Huck, less not try that thing any more till we know Injun Joe's not in there."
6 As for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment's pause.
7 He paused, feeling his scalp prickling under his hat.
8 We paused to marvel at the view.
9 She paused a moment to consider.
10 George paused, and glanced significantly in my direction.
11 She paused to reflect on what she had achieved.
12 She paused to stare at a wooden gate swinging crazily on its hinges.
13 There the Pope touched the white marble shrine and paused for a minute in silent prayer, just like millions of pilgrims before him.
14 He paused in the ninth inning from his mass handcuffing of the Colorado Rockies lineup, to gaze around the ballpark and remember where he was, and what he was doing.
15 Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.