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How to use paused in a sentence

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Jane paused momentarily, caught up in shock at both her own mistake and at Mr. Collins's harsh reaction.
He paused as the woman moved away, then lifted his eyes to the ceiling again.
Local golfers paused awhile to point it out to one another, then continued on their rounds.
Walking out onto the grand balcony, two robed men, one in teal, the other in purple, paused for a while to admire the open sea.
Oblivious, Sam paused to quickly scan the print-outs and spiky, almost illegible handwritten notes strewn around the room.
They paused for a moment and began to trade a flurry of blows, parries and dodges in a blur of movement.
She paused a moment to gather breath as she felt dizzy from using her powers.
She paused for a moment, as if gathering her breath for another onslaught of rapid-fire questions.
On the way to lock it in the nightstand, she paused to kiss his cheek and smack his backside.
Between rallies of intense project chatter, they paused to scrutinize me, murmuring and smirking like schoolboys at a junior high dance.
She rolled over onto her stomach and paused, as if she was waiting for the right moment to move.
He paused to dismount as well, tossing a thin tether to a man who took the animal away.
We paused to scrutinise tree tops for the green, blue and yellow birds, and were rewarded by several pairs of the tubby ungainly fowl.
She paused and glanced at me as though to check that my attention hadn't drifted again.
As he came in stamping his muddy feet on the porch mat, she paused in the kitchen to listen.
He paused, waiting for the cruel and actually childishly stupid words to sink into my thick brain.
He paused, having nothing further to say on the matter and then changed subject.
She paused as she glimpsed the shock in my expression that she was speaking more than a handful of meaningless words.
He paused, noticing that Devon was still seething with anger about Officer Sizemore.
He paused before delivering a powerful thrust that skewered the water creature beyond healing.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He paused, marshaling his thoughts, then went on, with a tinge of anger in his voice.
The scientists around the worktable had paused, too, as they felt the earth tremble.
The sergeant slapped his thigh and was turning for congratulations, but suddenly paused, stock-still and staring upward.
They had reached the topmost story, and the Father had paused to recover breath.
Rude hands seized me from behind, and the doublet was torn from my back by fingers that never paused to untruss my points.
Mrs. Cary, with her workbasket on her arm, paused at the top of the steps and regarded the angry pair with well-bred surprise.
Arina Petrovna paused, hoping that Simple Simon would give utterance to at least some sounds, but he was as dumb as a stone.
Fletcher paused, one foot in the stirrup, and looked the fellow up and down.
Drake paused in his apportionment, and a sleigh came swiftly round the turn, the horse loping and lathery.
A young cop eyed him as he returned to the main drag and paused near a street lamp.
Stanton paused imperceptibly before answering, while his ultrafast mind considered the problem and arrived at a decision.
She paused with untaught delicacy, for she reflected that he was her husband.
But as she did so she paused and said something to the verger, who was in the aisle.
He paused a moment at the gate, and as he stood the wind-borne fumes began their subtle work.
The girl, who had paused when he did, leaned on the pusher of her go-cart, studying him calmly.
Calavius was furious and paused, as if to give orders for harsher repression.
The foolish girl paused, and laughed, as if she did not like to soliloquise too confidentially, even to a kitten.
If he lingered they might suppose him lukewarm, if he paused they might think him ill-affected.
Here the Colonel paused to wait for the shouting and the hat-throwing to subside.
The Rector paused vaguely, and Birdwood tried to indicate by kicking himself that he had the kneeler.
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