The phrase "extended pause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a longer than usual break in speech or action.
Example: "After an extended pause, she finally gathered her thoughts and spoke."
Alternatives: "prolonged silence" or "lengthy break."
Those of us who would like to see an end – or at least an extended pause – to the hegemony of superhero films would be very pleased if Robert Downey Jr, Christian Bale and the nebbish who plays Captain America would make a similarly audacious artistic decision and walk away.
It was a deliberate, extended pause.
There is loud applause, followed by an extended pause.
There was another extended pause, and then the Seeds appeared.
"Every time Steph Curry makes a three pointer," one brother said, followed by an extended pause.
There is another extended pause, like a ravine into which one might fall.
His lusty shenanigans, and the pranks that the merry wives hatch in response, get lost in the immaculate art direction, and extended pauses between scenes sap momentum.
In such a resonant acoustic this created deliciously extended pauses, creating lacunae in the text that nothing stepped in to fill.
He's considered and articulate, yet sometimes seemingly on fast-forward, extended pauses followed by an explosion of thoughts and ideas ("I am scattergun to the nth degree," he laughs).
Like Walter Winchell and Gabriel Heatter before him, he personalized the radio news with his right-wing opinions, but laced them with his own trademarks: a hypnotic timbre, extended pauses for effect, heart-warming tales of average Americans and folksy observations that evoked the heartland, family values and the old-fashioned plain talk one heard around the dinner table on Sunday.
Amongst the guests there is a peach of a performance from Jeremy Northam as the buttoned-up diplomat quivering with shy lust: his initial, embarrassed encounter with Amy Morgan's taciturn flapper also proves that Coward, like Pinter, knew the comic value of extended pauses.
