Sentence examples for pausing to pick from inspiring English sources

"Do you want this?" asked Abdullah, pausing to pick up a complete terra-cotta pot.

The bag handler slowly unties the binding, pausing to pick at a troublesome knot for extra drama.

Pausing to pick up a carpenter's spirit level, he used it to see whether the vertical lines on the canvas were true.

I make my way by Pacerpole between the benches strategically sited at intervals along the path, pausing to pick luscious blackberries nestling among the rust-tinged bracken.

A witness quoted by the newspaper Espressen said the bomber appeared to drop a black object as he walked, pausing to pick it up, before rounding a corner, just before the second blast.

But headed back downstream -- pausing to pick a cattail spike so that I could pluck at it and explode its fluff on the late-day breeze -- I was content.

These so-called bus stop bypasses are designed to facilitate high speed cycling with cycle priority, so that cyclists do not need to slow down or need to overtake a bus which has paused to pick up passengers.

Salim pauses to pick some dirt out of its eye.

The first rimjob I ever gave, I paused to pick a little something off my tongue, and it was a scrap of toilet paper which just made the thing far too visceral, a reminder that my tongue was doing something he had done with toilet paper not long ago.

In CM03/04 it was possible to sit in your living room, laptop in hand, and whizz through half a season with your eye on the TV, pausing only to pick the team and delve into the transfer market.

Suddenly noticing that I looked a little chilly — I had felt that it would somehow be in poor taste to get dressed before Fuller did, and while he was talking — he quickly put his clothes back on and then led the way to the house at a fast trot, pausing only to pick up an exceptionally good example of "our friend tetrahedron".