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Example sentences for "brief pause"

  • Douglas, after a brief pause, rising to leave the table as he spoke.

  • Then, after a brief pause, she asked him: "Had he continued to occupy himself with music during the time of his journeys?

  • Yes, I want a fortune," he answered firmly, after a brief pause.

  • He looked his comrade up and down; then after a brief pause, he whistled.

  • George Macbean after a brief pause, shifting in his chair as he spoke.

  • Yes, Mary," he answered, after a brief pause.

  • Then after a brief pause he looked the sallow man straight in the face and added, "The question must not be asked in the Chamber.

  • Then after a brief pause, he bent towards her, saying, "You do not believe that he really discovered what he was in search of?

  • I don't know," I replied, after a brief pause.

  • Then listen to my proposal," exclaimed the widow, after a brief pause.

  • Listen to me for a few minutes, my dearest relatives—my kindest friends," said Eugene, after a brief pause.

  • After a brief pause, she said to Mr. Musgrove, "I think I can tell you how the matter originated.

  • After a brief pause:-- "I wonder what time this train gets into Bristol.

  • He did not reply to the strange words he had just heard, and his companion, after a brief pause, resumed his discourse in a different tone, telling the lad more about London and the life there than ever he had heard in his life before.

  • There was a brief pause, then the turning of a key in the lock grated unpleasantly on Francesco's ear.

  • There was a brief pause, during which the elder Villani seemed to collect his waning energies.

  • There was a brief pause, then the elder Villani continued: "You are my child, Francesco, the single evidence of my swerving from the narrow path of righteousness.

  • You speak as if you were about to renounce the Court of Avellino forever," he replied after a brief pause, charged with apprehension.

  • These are all French," said he, after a brief pause.

  • There was a brief pause, during which the chiming clock rang out the hour musically on the stillness.

  • There was a brief pause, during which the two surveyed each other with looks of mutual amazement.

  • One plan is as good as another," Seth said after a brief pause.

  • It isn't likely we could learn very much that would interest you," Master Ludwick said after a brief pause, "for since our arrest we have but little chance of hearing any British secrets.

  • You can come in," the man said after a brief pause, "and I'll see if it is possible to give you lodgings.

  • No woman was by such means ever wooed or won," the harper replied after a brief pause.

  • There was a brief pause, during which Benilo had arisen and paced up and down the chamber.

  • Eckhardt replied after a brief pause, during which he lay prostrate, writhing in agony and despair.

  • After a brief pause, two soldiers, who stood with their partizans crossed before the entrance of the audience hall, raised their weapons at a signal from within.

  • After a brief pause, Yakov asked me if I were unwell.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brief pause" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brief address; brief description; brief history; brief interval; brief moment; brief note; brief outline; brief pause; brief reference; brief silence; brief speech; brief statement; brief survey; brief while; constant supply; direct government; false religion; father himself; find grace; good cousin; great prince; missing from; personal danger; several ways; special cases; stand over