Words similar to pause

Example sentences for: pause

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

Fund says McCain's hypersensitivity should give pause to his acolytes in the national media.
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Matthews' idea of "hardball" (aside from titling his show and his book identically, so every pause for a commercial embeds a book plug) seems to be to yell four half-coherent questions in a row in a querulous, Bostonian tenor.
But some of Smith's doodles and offhand remarks give one pause.
It was the last example which gave me pause.