Sentence examples for hard pause from inspiring English sources

Life, as they say, got in the way: In addition to the typically overoptimistic Musk estimates, SpaceX also had to contend with a rocket explosion in September that put a hard pause on all of its flight activities for almost five months.

This means that instead of pronouncing the /t/ sound, you make a hard pause between the two vowel sounds.

Sometimes we don't so much want a seamless flow, or a drum of ideas punctuated with commas and ellipses, but rather hard pauses, urgent twists, high tension.

It often feels, here and elsewhere in the volume, as if Oyeyemi's flow of ideas is so protean that she finds it hard to pause to give necessary information; or as if her images are so clear for her that she feels a label will suffice for us too.

For times when you feel pressured and are tempted to push hard, instead pause, and check in with your inner wisdom, and just do enough.

It's hard to pause and reflect on your life when you've got obligations -- obligations that take up at least eight hours of your time every day.

Keeping my [consultancy] business going was very hard". He pauses, and says he knows it sounds ridiculous to talk about money problems.

It is an image so ubiquitous it often goes unnoticed: the construction worker in his hard hat pausing for a smoke.

It is hard, without pausing to think, to remember how many ministers have now left the government since the start of the day.

When asked what's hardest, he pauses, a world of pain on his face.

Whether the wine is from 1999 or 1959, it's hard not to pause contemplatively before uncorking it.