Sentence examples for split-second pause from inspiring English sources
"Uranus…" There is a split-second pause and then the class erupts into full-fledged chaos.
There's usually a split-second pause after Sermanni speaks while the team seems to processes exactly what he's said and whether or not it was a joke.
For comedy and tension, the whole band knows how to place things just a little bit off kilter: a woozy piano line, a split-second pause before a big drumbeat.
When Jay-Z left, there was only a split-second pause before the band tumbled into "Chalk Dust Torture," with Mr. Anastasio skipping nimbly through the lyrics -- a subtle nod, perhaps, to Jay-Z's rhyme style.
When he was a youngster, his coach, Sam Herford, helped him develop what Sports Illustrated once described as "Rose's special signature," a "split-second pause that occurs as he leans on his extended right arm and breathes on his left side, a pause during which he is absolutely relaxed.
We'll pause for a split-second to let you think... Hey, you're right!
But in the "ground game" phase of Iowa Caucus season, when campaigns fight tooth and nail for every last vote, it's easy to imagine a campaign manager on the verge of defeat in one precinct or another, pausing for a split-second to question the wisdom of reducing an entire religious group to collateral damage.
He helped the Knicks to an early lead with smart, slick passing, and when he paused to show a split-second of swagger after some of his sweeter jump shots, the crowd roared.
I only have to pause my voracious feed scrolling for a split-second to Like a funny quip or pretty picture, rather than having to interrupt my flow to open the feedback controls.
A snatched, guilty five-minute lie-in; a bus missed; a pause to look at some shoes in a shop; the split-second decision to get on one packed tube train rather than the next.
