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Example sentences for "after pausing"

  • He instantly drew it back, but, after pausing a moment and hesitating, he stretched it out slowly again, and it lighted upon the cold clammy features of a dead man's face.

  • After pausing for a moment or two to give him time to reach his master, Langford again advanced, and saw the boy in eager conversation with Franklin Gray, whose eyes were now bent upon the spot where he stood.

  • The next minute a broad pair of shoulders appeared, and then the whole form of a tall and powerful man, who, after pausing for an instant on the top of the broken wall, used its fragments as a means of descent to the ground below.

  • After pausing a moment and listening for a step, he quietly opened the door and went out into the passage.

  • Edith, after pausing for a moment or two, to give her time to recover her composure.

  • Then, after pausing for a moment or two in thought, he added, "It would be sweet as the strawberry and as easy to gather; but there may be thorns near it.

  • And then, after pausing for a moment, he asked, abruptly: "I go with you?

  • Edith, after pausing for a moment or two to give her time to recover her composure.

  • It is always so in England," said Lucius, after pausing for a while.

  • But a girl has no such secret," she continued to say, after pausing for a moment.

  • She was seated when he entered, with her back to him; but as she heard him she rose, and, after pausing for a moment, she stepped forward to meet him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after bowing; after dinner; after drinking; after exchanging; after exposure; after forty; after gazing; after giving; after long; after much; after pausing; after reading; after referring; after saying; after seeing; after sitting; after the; after thee; after them; afterward learned; afterwards called; civic life; come aboard; minister from; spake again; tell tales