Sentence examples for paused to observe from inspiring English sources

The class paused to observe me.

As we approached a lighted tree, we paused to observe an illuminated woman dangling cocoonlike in a hanging yellow net.

Exhausted, shaken, embarrassed, he hardly paused to observe the polished sea before removing his coat and vaulting over the ship's railing into the foaming wake.

"I like watching you figure this stuff out," said a lighting technician who had paused to observe from the back of the room.

At one point, in any case, a C.I.A. dossier paused to observe: "It is important to note that Szulc's activities can be explained by the combination of his personality, ambition, and the demands on an investigative reporter for the NYT.

Anyone who has built a sand castle by the edge of the sea and paused to observe the rising tide creep in and wash it away, can sink into the contemplative world of the Scottish artist profiled in Thomas Riedelsheimer's film "Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time".

(He pauses to observe that he is sounding dangerously like the Monty Python sketch in which prosperous men swap competitive accounts of childhood adversity).

At the outset, I pause to observe, as Clemenceau put it, "It is far easier to make war than to make peace". That remains as true today as it was a hundred years ago.

As you leave, a herd of red-deer hinds bumbles through the woods, pausing to observe you just as you paused in the Dunwich sun at the outset of the weekend.

I'm a book critic, a person who evaluates words for a living, and the city, surely, offers its own shifting types of poetry, worth pausing to observe and consider.

As our nation pauses to observe Labor Day this week, you have to wonder what the future holds for American workers.