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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151. The tendency of great things to be accomplished in dreadful spaces should give architects and decorators pause.
152. Dixie and the breadhead pause at the bottom, then turn to face each other. Dixie wipes a raindrop from his brow.
153. The best he could do to simulate this pause for reflection, was to use repetition at certain points.
154. There was a long pause on the other end, and for a moment Quinn thought the caller had hung up.
155. After a long pause he looked up and saw the stones held tightly in their hands.
156. Subjects might pause out of habit at points where it would be appropriate for them to pause when reading aloud.
157. It has affected me and made me pause for thought.
158. Let's pause for a moment,(www.Sentencedict.com) while I ask you to imagine the smell of newly baked bread or freshly percolated coffee.
159. But before I duck in, I pause a moment to gaze at the rapidly changing color of the sky.
160. After a long pause, she nodded and the story emerged of a stillbirth she had experienced in her early twenties.
161. I pause here to point out that items such as dressings are available on prescription.
162. Back to the other chair, and so on - moving every time you pause for thought.
163. There was a long pause, then(sentencedict.com), before it observed that some-thing was falling down toward it from the orbiting ship.
164. We clung together, breathless, until we had to pause for breath.
165. Stop and think Let's pause for a moment and think about this issue of arguments and the learning process.
166. She did not pause for a jacket, or to leave a note.
167. The pause gave Edmund Jason time to adjust to his presence.
168. But I still maintain that most bedding planes show evidence of a pause in sedimentation, if not actual erosion.
169. For in the sleep of death, what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause. William Shakespeare
170. Then there was a long pause during which Sophie drank her coffee and avoided looking at her companion.
171. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. Mark Twain
172. He approached from downwind, forcing the flames to pause against the blast from his rotors.
173. He comes to the end of one and without pause is off on another.
174. Then pause for a cold root beer in a turn-of-the-century saloon.
175. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
176. You may not agree with the ratings, but it does give pause to reflect on various destinations.
177. In 1897, after an uncommonly long pause of more than four years, an eleventh son was born.
178. Used to input a value to select an option, specify a parameter, terminate a pause etc.
179. I struggled, but he did not even notice. Without a pause, he moved down the stairs.
180. In Qatar Mr Bashir could have pause for thought.