"pause" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A scuffle from the basket broke an embarrassed pause.
- Easy to see my presence brings embarrassed pause.
- With fusion-bombs certain to be involved in any actual conflict, there was something like an embarrassed pause.
- There was the slightest, slightly embarrassed pause.
- There was an embarrassed pause, then he asked.
- And then there was a curious little embarrassed pause, as if none of us knew what to say.
- "I know this is silly," said Roger Bentley after an embarrassed pause.
- There was a long, extremely embarrassed pause.
- An embarrassed pause, then: "Any chance you could persuade your wife to quit her job and move down here to Houston?"
- "Ah, sir," she said after an embarrassed pause, "it would not be the first time we have walked there!"
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