PAUSE in a Sentence

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For PAUSE, below is one of 229 sentences:
After this fourth encounter, there was a considerable pause; nor did it appear that any one was very desirous of renewing the contest.

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 Meanings and Examples of PAUSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pause
 n.  a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
 n.  temporary inactivity
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There was a pause for a few moments, and then the low insidious sound was repeated.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
2  Never mind, he continued, more brightly, after a pause.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
3  That gave the animals pause, and there was a hush.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
4  There was a pause, during which Mr. Utterson struggled with himself.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
5  After this fourth encounter, there was a considerable pause; nor did it appear that any one was very desirous of renewing the contest.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  A few minutes pause having been allowed, that the combatants and their horses might recover breath, Prince John with his truncheon signed to the trumpets to sound the onset.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  Here he made a considerable pause, and Gurth had good hope that the last three pieces might escape the fate of their comrades; but the enumeration proceeded.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  I see," said Wamba, after a short pause, "that the fool must be still the fool, and put his neck in the venture which wise men shrink from.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  An awful pause of horror silenced each murmur of the armed spectators, who, for the space of several minutes, stirred not a finger, save to sign the cross.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  Surely we will pause ere we give an office so high to one who shows evidently how little he reverences our blood, by his so readily undertaking this enterprise against Richard.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  There was a pause; all eyes turned to Brain de Bois-Guilbert.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  The trumpets again sounded, and there was a dead pause of many minutes.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
13  There was a long pause of silence, a cold silence.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
14  There was another pause, then another start; but more ineffectual than before.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
15  There was a pause and a dead silence.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  There was a brief pause in the conversation.
2  He slipped out during a pause in the conversation.
3  For a man who held that to take even an ant's life is evil , the offering of a million lives gives one pause.
4  There will be a brief pause in the proceedings while the piano is moved into place.
5  There was a long pause for reflection, and then Tom said: "Lookyhere, Huck, less not try that thing any more till we know Injun Joe's not in there."
6  As for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment's pause.
7  He paused, feeling his scalp prickling under his hat.
8  We paused to marvel at the view.
9  She paused a moment to consider.
10  George paused, and glanced significantly in my direction.
11  She paused to reflect on what she had achieved.
12  She paused to stare at a wooden gate swinging crazily on its hinges.
13  There the Pope touched the white marble shrine and paused for a minute in silent prayer, just like millions of pilgrims before him.
14  He paused in the ninth inning from his mass handcuffing of the Colorado Rockies lineup, to gaze around the ballpark and remember where he was, and what he was doing.
15  Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.