Yes you try and be a bit more of a pause there.

You know the kind of pause that means someone's laughing inside?

Again, there was the sense of a pause before she replied.

"We have had kind of a pause here for a while," he said.

"But the general direction is not in favor of a pause."

I think there can be an art in the use of a pause.

This is going to be one hell of a dramatic pause.

But I've got a theory that this is just a kind of gentle pause.

His father had taken advantage of a pause to say, "Stand up, son."

Does that give you a moment of pause, my boy?