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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pause .
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Examples
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The train paused for only a few minutes at Hershey, then pulled off about a hundred yards and promptly broke down.
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The train paused for only a few minutes at Hershey, then pulled off about a hundred yards and promptly broke down.
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They were howling at the very gates, and sometimes he and the Factor paused from the game to listen and laugh at the futile efforts of the wolves to get in.
The Hunger Cry 2010
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He stood by the weather rail for a time (we were lowering over the lee rail), and then sauntered slowly amidships, where he again paused and stood facing the wind, with his back toward us.
Chapter 26 2010
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Martin paused from his rhapsody, only to break out afresh.
Chapter 35 2010
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Robin paused at the armored car and put the mask back on Batman's face!
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The train paused for only a few minutes at Hershey, then pulled off about a hundred yards and promptly broke down.
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Robin paused at the armored car and put the mask back on Batman's face!
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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As the train paused and lifted again, We decided to go on, and passed it just fine.
Dreaming archmage 2010
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Kwaque, squatted on the floor, his hams on his heels, paused from the rough-polishing of a shell comb designed and cut out by his master, and looked up, eager to receive command and serve.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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