One way to stop

Usage examples of pause.

I paused to take in the multicolored tapestry of melted and rehardened minerals, still furiously aboil to the untutored eye.

Cofort rose and made to follow, her graceful form showing no sign of the high acceleration, but when she paused to glance back, Jellico gave in to impulse and stayed her with a gesture.

Then they came around the corner, and Damien paused just long enough to acertain that there were only two of them before he swung.

Monk paused, his voice acknowledging her worry and, perhaps, his own misgivings about Fleet.

She paused and waited to see how I would react and then I realized that she was talking about Aden Fiske and not the dean or someone at Caldwell College, where I teach.

She lifted the device to her neck, but she paused before administering it.

She paused a moment before laying her hand against the admittance plate, composing her face and trying to calm her racing heartbeat.

Fully afrown, I paused by a window to draw aside the thin cloth which covered it, immediately discovering the presence of thick, heavy raindrops covering the outside of the maglessa-weave panes.

He has a twenty-eight-year pattern of aggression, violence, miscalculation, and purposeful underestimation of the consequences of his actions that should give real pause to anyone considering whether to allow him to acquire nuclear weapons.

This must have been one of his bored days, spent wandering aimlessly through the house with an occasional pause to glance over some possession of his before he grew tired of it and began wandering again.

The herd paused for an instant at the edge of the slope, but Akela gave tongue in the full hunting yell, and they pitched over one after the other just as steamers shoot rapids, the sand and stones spurting up round them.

There was a gown of purple silk that gave her pause, and another of dark blue velvet slashed with silver that would have woken all the color in her eyes, but in the end she remembered that Alayne was after all a bastard.

Now the pale-faced female paused and looked to Albedo for instructions.

Pausing to tune the harp, he snapped the string and, after a tense, whispered exchange with Alec, rose and bowed to the mayor.

Nysander paused, regarding Alec for a moment from beneath his shaggy brows.