PACE in a Sentence

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For PACE, below is one of 247 sentences:
On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence.

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 Meanings and Examples of PACE
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pace
 n.  single movement from one foot to the other in walking; slow gait; step
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He set out at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly retracing his steps.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
2  He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and remained standing, contemplating what he saw.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
3  But in proportion as she advanced, her pace slackened mechanically, as it were.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
4  When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure himself that he was not being followed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
5  Once in the forest he slackened his pace, and began a careful examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking and following a mysterious road known to himself alone.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
6  Cosette's pace retarded Jean Valjean's.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
7  The in pace replaced the leather sack.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
8  The occupant of the in pace had this wet soil for his bed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
9  Fauchelevent had slackened his pace.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
10  Fauchelevent slackened his pace, but he could not detain the hearse.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
11  Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and apparently in indecision.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
12  Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, talking aloud, and twitching, with his irritated old fingers, at the two watches which he wore in his two fobs.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE
13  In proportion as he drew near, his pace slackened more and more.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY
14  On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE
15  Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, walked on again, then listened once more.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  He was walking at a very quick pace and I had to jog to keep up with him.
17  He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.
18  He's a skilful player with a good turn of pace.
19  Aircraft production continued to plod along at an agonizingly slow pace.
20  People have lost patience with the slow pace of reform.
21  You need to pace yourself and decide which tasks are the most important.
22  It needed a compromise, a plan that would reassure the business community that it isn't abandoning economic reform even if the pace is slower.
23  'Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace,' said the Dormouse: 'not in that ridiculous fashion.'
24  As they passed the finish line, the runners began to slacken their pace.
25  The story flowed from one scene to the other in deliberate pace.
26  To walk at a pace that does not overtire you.
27  Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time.
28  The British team showed its paces during a training session in the hotel pool.
29  A policeman with plain clothes stood a dozen paces behind me watching me.
30  An old woman advanced a few paces to shake her fist virulently in my face.