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Example sentences for: paused

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Pundits paused to pay their respects before returning to the topic of Princess Diana.
His dreams were fulfilled, and even surpassed, by his son Alexander the Great, in a brief but action-filled lifetime of only 33 years (356–323 b.c. ). In 334 b.c. , aged only 22, he led his army across the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles), and paused at Troy to make a sacrifice at the temple of Athena and pay homage to his hero Achilles, before going on to defeat the Persians at the Battle of Granicus and liberating the Ionian cities.
Now, however, I paused in my labors after a short stint of alphabetizing and partially annotating a few recent additions, to wit:
When Gore was asked if he, too, was going to get a beer, he paused and seemed to search for the best focus-group tested answer.
The tape was paused to mark the location of cells, and the distance that the center of individual cells moved was measured 2 to 4 s later.