Sentence examples for thoughtful pause from inspiring English sources

[A thoughtful pause.] BRICK: On second thought, I have already had three iced teas today.

Another long, thoughtful pause.

After a thoughtful pause, she continues.

"I like this," she says, taking a long, thoughtful pause.

"Then again, maybe not," she said, after a thoughtful pause that conveyed overbearing maternal disapproval.

It's merely the details of his story that give it thoughtful pause.

She is a leaver of long, thoughtful pauses while her blue-grey eyes search out a meaning.

As always, Stewart's audience is overready to laugh, and a few times the President's sentences, with those long, thoughtful pauses, were derailed by laughter.

Conversation with Mr. Thomas, though full of thoughtful pauses, is a mercurial affair, with frequent digressions into musical fine points, often vigorously illustrated in song or at the piano.

The author of a book, Luella's Guide To English Style, she began her career in fashion as a journalist, and her sentences are writerly, with thoughtful pauses.

His words are often delivered after long, thoughtful pauses, and he has slimmed down since he resigned as senior vice president for content at Excite@Home in April 2000.