Sentence examples for halts for a second from inspiring English sources

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The animated figure of De Mena's Mary Magdalene, one foot poised in front of the other as she halts for a second or an eternity, contemplating the cross in her hand, is astonishing – as much for the detail of her dress of rush matting, carved with infinite patience and realism from cedar, as for her pose.

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My mind racing, I halted for a second and read out Spotify.

Trading in the shares of Hikari Tsushin, which sells cellular phones and has a joint venture with Pacific Century Cyber Works was halted for a fourth consecutive session, as orders to sell stock swamped orders to buy.

In the 40th minute, the English referee Martin Atkinson halted play – for a second time – after flares had been thrown from the crowd in the direction of Albanian players.

Ratko Mladic's genocide trial was halted today for a second day running because the former Bosnian Serb military commander was undergoing medical tests and under observation after being rushed to a hospital a day earlier.

The rush of words halts, and for an eighth of an instant he has no idea what to say.

We slide to a halt and wait for a second raft to come down before we pile into the truck.

Google said the delivery of some messages had been halted for a few seconds while others were "more severely delayed".

Matt Harvey realized that not long after Minnesota's Justin Morneau swung at an inside slider with two out in the seventh, pulling a home run high off the right-field pole and halting Harvey's bid for a second Mets no-hitter in two years and his first professional shutout.

Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers' "Halt and Catch Fire" returns for a second season this week, in the spot where "Mad Men" used to live.

The Conservatives' ostentatious halting of plans for a third runway at Heathrow last week is ostensibly a radical green solution but its chief inspiration was the arc of marginal commuterbelt seats in the shadow of the flightpath.

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