Sentence examples for a kind of a pause from inspiring English sources

And in some ways exactly what I was concerned about kind of came to pass.... "So, yeah, that did cause a kind of a pause, I would say," she continued.

Although the general tendency was signalization of full stops with breaths and lack of any kind of a pause in the place of comma, the variation between speakers is considerable.

Lack of any kind of a pause (words bonding in pronunciation) was registered in 20%% occurrences of full stops and 46%% commas for spontaneous speech and only for 1.3 % full stops and 42 % commas for read speech (Fig. 4).

"We have had kind of a pause here for a while," he said.

"What I'm kind of hoping is that this is just kind of a pause, while we assimilate this gigantic new thing, ubiquitous computing and the Internet.

"I've been in this business over 40 years, and February always presents kind of a pause," said William H. Stoller, chairman and chief executive of Express Employment Professionals, which is based in Oklahoma City.

"Whether it's a semifinal, final or quarterfinal, once that journey is over, there's kind of a pause and you kind of reflect back on what happened," he said.

One publisher had written to his agent that "A Kind of Pause" was "a classic, well-crafted mid-list book, the only trouble being that the mid-list doesn't exist anymore".

There are miserable men and women of all shapes and sizes, caught in a kind of sleepwalker's pause: their dialogue has a stymied, stricken quality.

And, more and more, he thought, that was the best you could hope for in life: a kind of pause.

He had taken this job partly to escape the shame of having his last novel, "A Kind of Pause," turned down by twelve publishers.