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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a suitable pause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the appropriate timing or duration of a break or interruption in speech, writing, or action.
Example: "During the presentation, it is important to take a suitable pause to allow the audience to absorb the information."
Alternatives: "an appropriate break" or "a fitting interval".
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"I am impatient … as charged," he says amid loud laughs with a suitable pause for effect.
And then, after a suitable pause, trading resumed again with an independent America.
An Australian of long acquaintance whose views generally are as unforgiving as the southern sun conceded that, yes, his nation's most gifted tennis rebel seemed to have at least started a dialogue with his own ego and may even have a chance of joining the human race, adding after a suitable pause: "But he's still a dickhead".
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"Proactive?" he repeated, pausing briefly before settling on a suitable equivalent.
He raised the torch, then paused and said, "I have everything except a suitable conclusion".
A suitable villain.
A suitable suitor?
A Suitable Fern Q.
Finding a suitable POST.
Find a suitable journal.
Select a suitable location.
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