Sentence examples for a deliberate pause from inspiring English sources

There was a deliberate pause.

What's on your mind?" A deliberate pause, to milk the inevitable laughter.

"Almost there," one whispered, and after a deliberate pause, "This has never happened before".

The more the Kipsigi girls repeat the song's title — with a deliberate pause between the second and third syllable, as if it were two words, Chimi Rocha, Chimi Rocha, Chimi Rocha — the more it becomes clear that, as Tracey discovered, the Kipsigi girls were in fact singing the name of the American country star Jimmie Rodgers.

They all try to describe James's distinctive manner of speaking, which was an extremely deliberate, pause-filled, somewhat stammering effort to grasp le mot juste.

It was a deliberate, extended pause.

For all his talk of speed, Mr. Musk, a physicist by training, is painstakingly deliberate, pausing between sentences.

His deliberate pauses may be disconcerting for his interlocutors, but he seemed as sharp as ever on Tuesday — perhaps especially when he paused before revealing a closer relationship with the former Labor prime minister, Gordon Brown, than the current Conservative prime minister, David Cameron.

Player development has a deliberate pace.

It's a deliberate vote against the genteel pause at the beginning of most major loan shows at the Met — a generally empty gallery dedicated to renting audio guides, reading wall texts and maybe sampling an artwork or two.

His re-learned throwing action begins with a deliberate drawing back of his hand followed by a pause that seems to keep the dart stationary for several seconds.