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Sentence count:229+7Posted:2016-07-16Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: ceaserecessreststopwaitAntonym: proceedSimilar words: causebecauseexhaustbecause ofMeaning: [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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121. Any pause in progress towards the objective is a matter of reneging on electoral promises.
122. Jeffries spoke for well over an hour, without pause, without notes, as fluent and long-winded as Fidel Castro.
123. We pause in front of chalkboards hung on the wall delineating the controlled transactions that govern this universe.
124. I pause on the steps to listen to the words.
125. There was no pause among them,(sentencedict.com) no need to conjure either the memory or the boat itself.
126. His eyebrows rose slightly at her scarcely hidden hostility, and there was an awkward pause.
127. The bombs stopped as suddenly as they started but the hollow screams of anti-aircraft shells continued without pause.
128. There was a long pause, one more breath, and that was all.
129. Knowing what Edmund has done to his real father might have given Cornwall pause before proclaiming himself the next one.
130. A pause: the speaker, though absent from our midst, has a fine grasp of the audience.
131. Until the armoured regiment had crossed its start line, the armoured infantry would pause momentarily in forward holding areas.
132. Never go straight on from one candidate to the next without pause for reflection, nomatterhow rushed you feel.
133. When the school bus pulled up, there was the usual avalanche of nine children, and then a pause.
134. After an unnaturally long pause Constance became aware of this.
135. Every few minutes, she would pause to look me over, to see if there were hard lines that needed rearrangement.
136. Even seemingly innocuous turnstile-exits with interlocking horizontal bars give my sister pause, however.
137. At last, when there was a brief pause, Woodruffe cleared his throat.
138. The fact that he was suddenly not perfect made her pause over the salad of prejudices she was starting to admit to.
139. Their sparring for position of least-favoured son gave me pause for thought.
140. He would pause only to take a meal in the dining-room, where he would sell his pens to visiting salesmen.
141. Pause and pace yourself Most of us leave no time in our day for ourselves.
142. There was a pause in the conversation as everyone turned to say hello to Paul.
143. I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease. G.K. Chesterton 
144. Everything freezes on the court, like some one has hit the pause button and suspended the characters in a movie.
145. You eye the pepper mill, pause and pick the tablecloth.
146. Their faces were blue, and their stillness not a mass death but as though a momentary pause in group exercise.
147. Charles didn't respond and after a frozen pause, she collapsed into a chair and burst out crying.
148. There was to be no pause for reflection, nor - much less - for a changeover from military to civilian rule.
149. Here we need to pause to think about what we mean by spacetime.
150. Although the aims of these events were far from revolutionary, they gave the supporters of Francoist orthodoxy particular pause.
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