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US
/ˈpɔz/
]
[ UK /pˈɔːz/ ]
[ UK /pˈɔːz/ ]
NOUN
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- temporary inactivity
VERB
-
cease an action temporarily
let's break for lunch
We pause for station identification -
interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
The speaker paused
How To Use pause In A Sentence
- A pause in lecturing, consequent upon our mid-year examinations having begun, has given me a little respite, and I am paying a three days 'visit upon an old friend here, meaning to leave for New York to-morrow, where I have a couple of lectures to give. Familiar Letters of William James II
- Oblivious, Sam paused to quickly scan the print-outs and spiky, almost illegible handwritten notes strewn around the room.
- She felt it pause in her belly and then shoot out from her chest and from the top of her head.
- By now it had reached the sea, where it paused for a moment to fix us with a baleful stare. Times, Sunday Times
- He deliberately paused outside the door, forcing them to wait in frustration before they dared erupt into excited comment.
- It is a good service to provide for your listeners so we don't have to pause the show find whatever your looking at and then come back. aria on August 22, 2009 3: 04 pm intro is a cover of the airman stage on rockman 2. its called airman ga taosenai, u can find lots of versions of it on nico nico douga Anime Pulse » Shows
- I pause because telling the dream out loud has tripped the trigger.
- But considering how much time we spend on that time of the month - from puberty to menopause, the average woman menstruates almost seven whole years - many of us know surprisingly little about it.
- The atmosphere grew tenser and an awkward pause ensued.
- In this representation, which may be called playing a picture, action, even pantomimical action, was not expected; and all that was required of the performers, was to throw themselves into such a group as might express a marked and striking point of an easily remembered scene, but where the actors are at a pause, and without either speech or motion. Saint Ronan's Well