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Example sentences for: pauses

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Asked, in separate questions, whether he considers himself a Christian and whether he believes in Christ's divinity, Ventura pauses each time but answers yes.
Most traders say that the pauses exacerbated the panic.
Before I go back to bed and try to shake this damn flu, one more thing: the lovely piece in today's New York Times advertising column about the "Cash" machine, which digitally compresses the pauses and long syllables out of talk shows so that local stations can sell more commercial time.
Meanwhile, John McLaughlin stares directly at Fred "Beetle" Barnes, pauses, and calls him "Pat Buchanan."
Praise also goes to comedian Mike Nichols' film-acting debut: His "timing is flawless, his speech peppered with strange pauses through which we grasp the full weight of his irony, derision, and sheer incredulity at the peculiarity of the human phenomena that surround him" (Leslie Camhi, the Village Voice ). (Slate's Sarah Kerr argues that the movie is merely pretentious.)