Sentence examples for paused over from inspiring English sources

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As our host cleared the table, she paused over my friend's shoulder.

He paused over his meal.

"Oh," he said, and paused over what looked like a credit-card offer.

I paused over Sylvia Plath's poems and let out an unexpectedly demonic cackle.

She paused over a deity depicted with claws, fangs and a serpent headdress, designated as Ix Chel.

I admit, I paused over the description of Andrew Davidson's novel "The Gargoyle" in the Doubleday catalogue.

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Although pausing, over-talking, rephrasing and incomplete sentences are normal in spoken interactions, cases of marked verbal dysfluency can be seen as a possible sign of interactional discomfort for the doctor or patient.

He pauses over various objects before offering exclamations of recognition and tentative identifications.

Woods is seen painstakingly pausing over a putt as he might at this week's United States Open.

You pause over the keyboard and summon in vain a word you need.

This isn't news that an all-purpose newspaper would pause over.

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