Sentence examples for a meaningful pause from inspiring English sources

He leaves a meaningful pause.

After a meaningful pause, he added: "Quite right too".

They drink too much white wine, and inevitably there comes "a meaningful pause... in the eyes, the sparkle of invitation".

She breaks off for a pointedly meaningful pause, before leaning forward.

And Terry Berliner's direction can feel didactic at times, especially when actors take a Long, Meaningful Pause after unleashing words of wisdom like, "At least having regrets means you chose something".

Alessandro Del Piero was an expert at the meaningful pause.

Meaningful pause, impeccable timing.

A voice introduced itself as "Rob, your laserist," and then said, "I'm high!" — full stop, meaningful pause — "Above your heads in the control booth".

When those dark days come, and sometimes in life, those days have a bad habit of popping up when you least expect them; take a pause, a meaningful and thoughtful pause without judgment or action.

As a film, The Railway Man is full of meaningful pauses in between the anger and torture, which left me wondering what Lomax felt at these times, so much so that I yearned for the cliché of the dreaded voice-over.

The anemic Mr. Shakespeare specializes in meaningful pauses and cryptic silences.