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Example sentences for: pausing

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At times he speaks in short, halting phrases, pausing between the most unlikely words, and then he'll rush through a series of phrases so quickly that he'll nearly run out of breath and almost gasp out the last words--rhythm as characterization, his cadences revealing the contours of his troubled spirit as concisely as his words.
On a signal from the raja, one of his priests stabbed him with a kris (knife), and then, pausing only to stab their children first, the rest of the royal party began a puputan, either killing themselves or running suicidally towards the enemy.
' After pausing slightly for air, McCurry added indignantly, 'So there's no parallel whatsoever.
After pausing to take a photograph, cross the street to Jodenbreestraat (Jewish Broad Street) and the 3-story brick building with red shutters.
Its strange posture commemorates a legendary statue that came to life and then berated Eikan, the astonished monk looking on, for pausing from his ritual chanting.