Sentence examples for pausing to play from inspiring English sources

She also showed plenty of charm, pausing to play with a skipping rope with some local teens in Xi'an, and dabbling with ping pong and calligraphy.

We run downtown, pausing to play, cool off and rest in the creek.

He then hurriedly attempts to tidy the room – pausing to play the opening bars of the song "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?" by Peter Sarstedt on his stereo system – and runs a bath.

It paused to play loungey instrumentals that could have come from an Italian movie soundtrack.

As the band moved between stages or paused to play on the walkway, images, slogans, and live projections would appear on the screens.

On our way out of the Düsseldorf studio, Struth paused to play a twenty-second riff on the drums, relics of the days when he played in a rock band.

Mr. Lake, with his wild, searing tone, soloed in bracing gulps over fluctuating rhythm, but here and there he paused to play a tightly coiled melodic line with his trumpeter, Freddie Hendrix.

He pauses to play a video on his battered mobile phone.

Particularly active in the Kaunas pogrom was the so-called "Death Dealer of Kaunas", a young man who murdered Jews with a crowbar at the Lietukis Garage before a large crowd that cheered each killing with much applause; he occasionally paused to play the Lithuanian national anthem "Tautiška giesmė" on his accordion before resuming the killings.

People tote things and throw things, pause to play the guitar, dance or drink in solitary isolation.

Nervous observers hope the move means the firm will pause to play catch-up, as the CEO drove a rapid series of expansionist deals.