Example sentences for: pacing

How can you use “pacing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The first time I saw Affliction , it struck me as both arid and pretentious; the second, arriving with no narrative expectations, I found myself more tolerant of the pacing and more drawn in by the performances.

  • This exposé of American submarine espionage is "an evocative and important look at the cold war," says Timothy Naftali in the New York Times Book Review . Told with the color and pacing of a spy novel, the book is full of firsthand accounts from the men who served on the underwater spying missions, though critics complain that the writers--a former New York Times reporter and a current one--are insufficiently skeptical about inflated claims to heroism.

  • Although it "bristles with sharply observed detail" (David Gates, Newsweek ), the book runs into trouble in terms of developing characters and maintaining any sort of pacing or momentum.

  • "They can be found," a CNN correspondent informs us, "shuttling the kids to practice in minivans, nervously pacing the sidelines, juggling the demands of family and career."

  • Include only events that require medical therapy, cardioversion or pacing.


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