Sentence for pause | Use pause in a sentence

Sentences for pause. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use pause in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for pause.

• A pause. (8)
• A long pause. (8)
• There was a pause. (8)
• There was a pause. (10)
• After a short pause. (4)
• During a pause, Mr. (10)
• The pause was short. (10)
• The pause was short. (22)
• By the breath of your nostrils; pause! (10)
• A momentary pause ensued. (8)
• There was a lengthy pause. (8)
• At length there was a pause. (4)
• There ensued a brief pause. (13)
• There was an oppressive pause. (12)
• The pause presented an opening. (10)
• A pause, a twinkle, a puff of smoke. (8)
• Van Diemen burst out in the dead pause. (10)
• In Paris they had again to pause for a day. (8)
• She laughed colloquially, to fill a pause. (10)
• The remark threw a pause across his thoughts. (10)
• At last Mrs. P. in a pause broke out with, ‘Mr. (14)
• I knew her without need of pause or retrospect. (10)
• There was another pause, which was broken by Cook. (13)
• After a perceptible pause, she turned to Mrs. Lapham. (9)
• He was obliged to pause more than once as he continued. (4)
• After a pause between them, he referred to the fencing. (10)
• He wrote as one who poured forth a history without pause. (10)
• He should just announce it quietly, when there was a pause. (8)
• The invitation to him was implied in the pause that followed. (13)
• There was a pause, and then the ladies and gentlemen laughed. (10)
• There was a pause, while the two men stood and looked at each other. (13)
• Miss Galbraith does not reply, and after a pause Mr. Richards resumes. (9)
• Her enunciation waxed slower and significantly staccato toward a pause. (10)
• Wilfrid got it down, and commenced a lecture to fill the awkward pause. (10)
• Sir Willoughby allowed Mrs. Mountstuart to pause and follow her thoughts. (10)
• Mrs. Dashwood was too much astonished to speak, and another pause succeeded. (4)
• The evening passed without a pause of misery, the night was totally sleepless. (4)
• Not until a pause occurred between two courses did von Tungern alter his manner. (5)
• At each pause of her mental activity she was hurled against the state of marriage. (10)
• Perhaps his pause on the interjection expressed a doubt of our getting them genuine. (10)
• At last there was a pause, and it seemed every maze of music had been wandered through. (10)
• She pulled her hand out of his arm, which she had taken, and halted him by her abrupt pause. (9)
• The rain still continued, and after a brief pause at Linz we paddled on in search of a camp. (20)
• During a short pause little Mrs. Lupin trotted to the door, and shot through it, in a paroxysm. (10)
• Now came a pause, as if he had sworn to take his rest: now the room shook and the windows rattled. (10)
• They came in view of the domed cathedral, hearing, in a pause of the wheels, the bell of the hour. (10)
• There was a pause: an awful under-breath of sanctified wonderment and reproach passed round the office. (10)
• As the train got away from the sprawling outskirts of the city, every stop marked a pause in social progress. (13)
• On the edge of the road a crucifix had been set up, and that was the first thing that gave the peasant pause. (12)
• They were all standing in the hall together, and she prolonged the awkward pause while she examined the permit. (9)
• And there passed through Gyp the thought that she could never again be friends with a man without giving that pause. (8)
• But a feeling of hesitation and forlornness rising, he knew not whence, made him pause irresolute before the window. (8)
• It was a terrible pause; and terrible to every ear were the corroborating sounds of opening doors and passing footsteps. (4)
• An accident, happy in its result, but threatening for a moment a painful disaster, made a pause at Budapest a necessity. (20)
• I think I see them pause to count the strokes, and wander on again into the moving High Street, stunned and sick at heart. (2)
• In the pause which succeeded, a sound like receding footsteps and the closing of a distant door struck on her affrighted ear. (4)
• Like the deep-rooted tree, My life is half in earth, and draws Thence all sweetness; oh may my being pause Soon beside thee! (10)
• She had scattered his brains; it was pitiable: but she was in the torrent and could not suffer a pause or a change of place. (10)
• Darcy only smiled; and the general pause which ensued made Elizabeth tremble lest her mother should be exposing herself again. (4)
• How far this silence was due to consideration for their pleasure, how far to regard for his own, he did not pause to consider. (8)
• The contractor did not pause to give Hart time to think, but kept his stream of slow, confident words flowing over the architect. (13)
• Yet here, Like the pause to things hunted, in doubt, The stillness bred spectral fear Of the awfulness ranging without, And imminent. (10)
• At the first direct note, the burden of which necessitated a pause, she petitioned him to be her friend, to think of himself as her friend. (10)
• And gradually little pauses began to creep into their talk; then a big pause, and Nedda, who would never want to sleep again, was fast asleep. (8)
• It was evident that the report concerning her had spread, and a short pause succeeded, which seemed to ensure that it would now spread farther. (4)
• Careful that no pause should follow, she commenced chatting to the ladies and gentlemen alternately, keeping Vittoria under her peculiar charge. (10)
• Lavender was obliged to pause some time hovering between the two designations, and finally combining them as the only way out of his difficulty.) (8)

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