[ US /ˈpɔz/ ]
[ UK /pˈɔːz/ ]
NOUN
  1. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
  2. temporary inactivity
VERB
  1. cease an action temporarily
    let's break for lunch
    We pause for station identification
  2. interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
    The speaker paused
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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
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