Sentence examples for the paces of from inspiring English sources

Rather suddenly, her mother died, and an hour afterward, she and her brother numbly went through the paces of a standard obituary, listing survivors.

She would not walk them through the paces of her decision making; she didn't like stupid questions; she wanted action -- yesterday.

It was poignant to see the puppets — faceless, hairless, uncostumed mannequinlike figures — doing stretches, limbering up, being put through the paces of an audition, then facing rejection.

Just inside the blue double doors of the 109th Precinct station house in Flushing, Queens, the paces of standard police work shuffled along in the expected ways.

As the girls go through the paces of an elite summer boarding school — horses to ride, water ballet routines to learn and soufflés to coax to heights of perfection — they begin to compose lives that break convention at every turn.

And note, too, that Heti unconsciously concedes something about the difficulty of putting invented characters under moral and formal pressure: she is tired, she says, of sending characters "through the paces of a fake story".

The pace of research quickened.

Was the pacing of the meal satisfactory?

The pace of the trial had accelerated.

You control the pace of the game.

What's the pace of the game?