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were pauses
noun
A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
Exact(5)
There were pauses in the fighting.
These were pauses between deep draughts of guitar, where the concert's action lay.
Yet in among the flatulence jokes and unrestrained use of a genuine slap stick were pauses for some sublime, harmonic meditations the expressive equal of anything the northern Italian madrigal tradition has to offer.
While I waited for somebody to take an order, or bring the main course, or clear dirty dishes, there were pauses long enough for several species of Amazonian frogs to go extinct.
We talked, we listened and there were pauses where neither of us could talk at all.
Similar(55)
All my audiobooks were paused in chapter one.
All medications were paused at least 12 h before examinations.
There also are pauses.
There are pauses, rethinks and U-turns.
The spaces between rectangles are pauses in the speech.
The little secret is pauses.
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