Synonym: cease, recess, rest, stop, wait. Antonym: proceed. Similar words: cause, because, exhaust, because of. Meaning: [pɔːz] n. 1. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something 2. temporary inactivity. v. 1. interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing 2. cease an action temporarily.
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61. It was unusual for Hal to pause so long.
62. There was a pause, the automatic doors unclenched.
63. But the pause gave hope to others.
64. We worked for four hours without a pause.
65. I said after a short pause.
66. There was a longish pause.
67. High real estate prices have given potential buyers pause.
68. A long pause,(www.Sentencedict.com) then the pointer went to fifty.
69. He could do one poem with sixty verses without pause, and Sir Emmanuel would listen and marvel at his ability.
70. Rubberneck, the beating stopped, a pause, peeked out between his fingers.
71. He found names in the catalogue that made him pause with a strange contained excitement.
72. After a short pause to watch us, she passed on surrounded by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset and other local dignitaries.
73. It can be marked by very low pitch, even on lexical items(sentencedict.com), loss of amplitude and a lengthy pause.
74. There was a long pause while he picked his teeth and looked down into the seat of his chair.
75. But in 1874-not ten years earlier or later-city and nation endured a painful pause in the march of progress.
76. Pause here for gorilla joke: A man is walking down Oxford Street with a gorilla on each arm.
77. There was a long pause during which Julian, instantly defensive, took stock of the situation.
78. They would pause for breath, swear, and then come together again, their fists up, moving in.
79. The pause became so long that Paula looked anxiously at her passenger, his face illuminated by the headlights of oncoming cars.
80. However, we might pause to speculate how the above formulation of the Keynesian labour supply function came about.
81. The George Street precinct is a great place to pause, enjoy the frequent street entertainment and watch the world go by.
82. It gave him pause, but soon enough he had his own retort.-Yeah, right.
83. Apparently they did, for there was a long pause before the door hissed open.
84. But it gave you some pause to think of what else might be crawling around there.
85. Yet the offer seems to have given Burton no pause.
86. He tactfully looked the other way and did not pause in his stride.
87. Astonished Humberside airport workers watched the bosses pause only to check their briefcases and take souvenir snaps of their twin-engine plane.
88. She felt it pause in her belly and then shoot out from her chest and from the top of her head.
89. I pause a moment beside an ancient grove of beech trees, tended no longer now, though their presence and calm remain.
90. Let us pause, for a moment, to note what that would entail.