Sentence examples for pausing to shake from inspiring English sources

New people keep passing through, pausing to shake Wolf's hand and just say "Hi".

He folds every item carefully and lays it inside a cardboard box, pausing to shake the dust out of a cap or a frayed flag.

Johnson strolled into the grounds of the church, pausing to shake the hands of friends and colleagues he spotted just outside the building's entrance.

Here was Theo Epstein, the general manager of the Red Sox, pausing to shake Morgan's hand and joke that "I hope we don't have to bring you in in midseason".

Mr. Bloomberg spent nearly all his time talking to market executives and business owners, rarely pausing to shake hands with the many guys driving fork lifts or pushing handtrucks full of California carrots or lemons from Chile.

I have to wait in the porch until everyone is inside the church, count to 10 and then make my way to the front, pausing to shake hands with a couple of mourners.

The great man pauses to shake his head.

He paused to shake other hands, to let the photographers and reporters fulfill their obligations.

Here, he paused to shake his head at just how scary this seemed in retrospect, and how utterly beyond his control.

One who paused to shake hands was Eleanor Hill, a retired Housing Authority worker from Brownsville, Brooklyn, who said she had been coming to the church since 1968.

He poured in red wine, paused to shake hands with a guest who was leaving, then measured out capfuls of Cognac.