Sentence examples for huge pause from inspiring English sources

There was a huge pause.

That's followed by a huge pause, the musical equivalent of two raised eyebrows.

He said: "You're just not very good... ..... — in my memory there was a huge pause here — "... at criticism or reporting.

Soon afterward, Obama endorsed Daley for reëlection, less than two years after Obama had said that City Hall corruption gave him "huge pause" about Daley's administration.

And when he comes to the account of Pyrrhus, the impotent revenger, he introduces a huge pause after the words "did nothing".

There's just this pause, this huge pause.

"There were huge pauses in the conversation, like she was meditating," he remembered.

"I have recently completed a novel which is partly based on the life of Nietzsche," he said, with huge, disquieting pauses between each word.

Is there any reason why that terrifyingly arbitrary materiality of the word surface should not be dissolved, as for example the sound surface of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is devoured by huge black pauses, so that for pages on end we cannot perceive it as other than a dizzying path of sounds connecting unfathomable chasms of silence?

Now here's a story about somebody's beekeeping stepmother with huge dramatic pauses interspersed between every seven words.

We glide past a huge open kitchen, pausing to watch the chefs strut their stuff before taking our seats.