Synonym: rate, speed, stride, tread, walk. Similar words: space, keep pace with, face to face, pack, impact, package, face, trace. Meaning: [peɪs] n. 1. the rate of moving (especially walking or running) 2. the distance covered by a step 3. the relative speed of progress or change 4. a step in walking or running 5. the rate of some repeating event 6. a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride. v. 1. walk with slow or fast paces 2. go at a pace 3. measure (distances) by pacing 4. regulate or set the pace of.
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(151) Research tends to move along at a slow but orderly pace.
(152) We'd better walk a bit quicker - it's going to take forever if we go at this pace.
(153) To be a really good runner he needs to lengthen his pace a little.
(154) The pace of life is much slower on the islands.
(155) The pace at which the primitive economy is monetarized is fairly fast.
(156) I try to get away at weekends for a change of pace.
(157) You shouldn't have such a job if you can't stand the pace.
(158) There is considerable impatience with the slow pace of political change.
(159) The company is no longer setting the pace in the home computer market.
(160) Nowhere in Britain has bureaucratic centralization proceeded with more pace than in Scotland.
(161) Leonard takes Carver-style dirty realism and fuses it with the pace of a detective story.
(162) The population has already begun to show its displeasure at the slow pace of change.
(163) The pace of life is much gentler on the island.
(164) It's important for a firm to keep pace with changes in the market.
(165) The Conservative government will not slacken the pace of radical reform.
(166) If they can keep up the pace , they should have finished by early next week. Sentencedict.com
(167) The pace of the race was too severe to be maintained for long.
(168) Interest rates would come down as the recovery gathered pace.
(169) The company is struggling to keep pace with changes in the market.
(170) The pace of the book is leisurely, with enjoyable literary and historical asides.
(171) You need to step up the pace of your exercises.
(172) My trainer spurred me to keep up a pace of four miles an hour.
(173) The fastest runner set the pace and the others followed.
(174) The younger children struggled to keep pace with the older ones.
(175) He got up and began to pace up and down the garden.
(176) He scares teams to death with his pace and power.
(177) The Joneses set the pace and their neighbors try to keep up with them.
(178) The school believes in letting children learn at their own pace.
(179) I can't stand the pace, I suppose, and the competi-tiveness, and the unfriendliness.
(180) Thinking that she was being followed, she quickened her pace.
More similar words: space, keep pace with, face to face, pack, impact, package, face, trace, place, palace, embrace, in place, surface, at peace, replace, face up to, in place of, placement, workplace, make a face, out of place, take place, marketplace, replacement, make peace with, take the place of, in the first place.