Example sentences for: paused

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

  • She paused outside 10 Downing Street, and smiled: 'Thank you, I'm very well thank you.

  • Most tasters paused to complain about it--"fizzy and soapy"--before giving it reasonable marks.

  • 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.

  • When telomerase eventually acts, it usually encounters the eroder paused at a pause site and adds telomeric repeats to those resected chromatid ends, thus generating the reproducible spectrum of TASs observed.


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