Pausing can be categorized as a verb.
Verb |
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| pause - cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" | ||
| pause - interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused" |
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| 1. | verb | Pausing to think doesn't always mean we can. | |
| 2. | verb | That's why he keeps pausing and hemming and hawing. | |
| 3. | verb | Pausing before reposting can save you from embarrassment and prevent falsehoods from spreading farther. | |
| 4. | verb | We pause for station identification. | |
| 5. | verb | We should sometimes pause to think. | |
| 6. | verb | Pause the game. | |
| 7. | verb | Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. | |
| 8. | verb | There is a wise American saying: Never waste a crisis. And the current financial and economic crisis affords us a rare opportunity to pause and reflect on where we have been going and where it leads. | |
| 9. | verb | In spoken language, we do not pause between words, a fact that is somewhat surprising. We seem to hear separate words; we can clearly make them out. | |
| 10. | verb | Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. | |
| 11. | verb | Can you pause the video for a moment? | |
| 12. | verb | To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause. | |
| 13. | verb | Can you pause the TV for a second? | |
| 14. | verb | It was a moment to pause. | |
| 15. | verb | They're things that really give you pause for thought. |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| Pausing to think doesn't always mean we can. | |
| That's why he keeps pausing and hemming and hawing. | |
| Pausing before reposting can save you from embarrassment and prevent falsehoods from spreading farther. | |
| We pause for station identification. |
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| We should sometimes pause to think. | |
| Pause the game. | |
| Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. | |
| There is a wise American saying: Never waste a crisis. And the current financial and economic crisis affords us a rare opportunity to pause and reflect on where we have been going and where it leads. | |
| In spoken language, we do not pause between words, a fact that is somewhat surprising. We seem to hear separate words; we can clearly make them out. | |
| Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. | |
| Can you pause the video for a moment? | |
| To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause. | |
| Can you pause the TV for a second? | |
| It was a moment to pause. | |
| They're things that really give you pause for thought. | |