Sentence examples for odd pause from inspiring English sources

my friends are too afraid to mock me but whenever it inevitably starts playing during dinner there is always an odd pause and stifled laughter.

Wi-Fi connections can cut out and cause odd pauses.

Odd pauses or silly asides ("You are liking, please?") would make nonsense of chilling remarks.

Henry Irving, who put the ham in Hamlet, was notorious for inserting odd pauses and had "a hard caustic voice like a jet of carbolic acid".

There are some odd pauses, places where he seems slightly out of tune, and she realizes these too are identical to his original rendition.

The guitar sounds are high, scraping, and metallic (Albini uses a brass pick); the bass is loud and slightly ragged; and the drumming is forceful and blunt, even when patterns are full of odd pauses and hiccups.

Within its giddy jumps and whooshing pirouettes, Balanchine sets up startling counter-forces, sudden accelerations, swerving directional changes and odd pauses that force the dancing to an edge as unsettling as it is stirring.

Even then there are odd pauses as one actor or another loses his place, and only occasionally is there any real interchange in which the actors look at or appear to be listening to one another.

Between numbers, there were odd pauses that appeared unplanned rather than designed to build tension.

He walks and speaks in perfect time with his backing band, which means he leaves... odd... pauses... between... words... in order to fit the syncopated rhythms.

It's a little higher and faster, but with odd, devastating pauses and saturnine shades of mockery.