Sentence examples for curious pause from inspiring English sources

After a curious pause, George W. Bush rejected his own administration's analysis.

There was a curious pause between Budd's first recorded work in 1970 and his Eno-produced Pavilion album of 1978.

There were curious pauses in the pacing, moments that seemed like dead space, not dramatic silence.

She often sees curious strangers pausing outside her doorway, and sometimes she invites them in and shows them around.

Great images typically frame unique people, places or occasions, giving us curious cause to pause.

Failure, more than success, typically has the power of having us pause, curious about how a failing came about and what might be learned.

A long pause, a curious look.

You may need to pause, remaining curious about extenuating circumstances.

"But I just know it's a word you can make out of 'aperies.' " They paused, suddenly curious, to consult the Scrabble app on their iPhones.

All of this makes one pause; it a curious thing that Slavick doesn't make more of the nomadic process required to produce global surveys of art such as Rubble, particularly given that the primary and unifying element of this nomadism is empathy.

She pauses, rousing "a curious excitement of mind rather than of body in him," and he says, "Go on, go on.