Sentence examples for lengthy pause from inspiring English sources

After that there was a lengthy pause.

"She was called Gladys," he says after a lengthy pause.

"I don't know how to answer that," he said, after a lengthy pause.

When East put in the ten, there was a lengthy pause.

When I ask him to define "Britishness", there's a lengthy pause.

"Yeah, I would always say that," Sherwood said after a lengthy pause.

During conversations, she is given to taking lengthy pauses.

He then indulged in one of the lengthy pauses for which he is famous.

For ten minutes or so, he responded to my questions monosyllabically, allowing lengthy pauses between his answers.

Haydn often uses lengthy pauses to heighten suspense, such as in his Sonata in G minor (H.XVI 44), composed (like the G-major Capriccio) for harpsichord.

To get the ball rolling or when there are lengthy pauses, you may want to volunteer your own phrase or word of interest.