Pause in a sentence as a noun

I switched it, paused the game and had a white suit!!

The guy is dying, and pretending it will just be a pause is insulting all round.

It was suppose to pause when a user got on a machine and resume when they got off.

Did anyone else pause at the $80k and think that's not very much, before continuing to read "per month"?

I think this should give pause to all of us, no matter what we think of the net-neutrality issue.

Pause in a sentence as a verb

It also may not, but as a gay person, were I a current or prospective employee of Mozilla, this would give me pause.

It should give leading European nations pause when considering what to do with the rest of the troubled economies in the eurozone.

Jobs or Forstall always seemed to favour it, but could you imagine Jony Ive signing off on a Podcasts app where half the screen is a reel-to-reel tape that bounces when you pause?

Many people today do not even give pause over the idea that the government claims huge amounts of unchecked power, whether it is to fight terrorists or to expand social programs.

Whereupon, without any pause, he immediately began to recite the first chapter and continued until asked to stop after about ten or fifteen minutes.

Pause definitions

noun

a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

See also: intermission break interruption suspension

noun

temporary inactivity

verb

interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused"

See also: hesitate

verb

cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch"

See also: intermit break