pregnant pause

What can only be described as a pregnant pause then followed.

A long pregnant pause where they simply stared at each other.

There's a pregnant pause on the other end of the telephone line.

A pregnant pause followed, David simply too surprised to say anything.

There was a long silence - what I think might be called a pregnant pause.

This is what could be termed in as a a pregnant pause!

After about 5 minutes, 10 names and several pregnant pauses, the well seemed to have run dry.

You couldn't get down to business until after the small talk and a pregnant pause.

The silence hung between them in a long, pregnant pause.

There was a pregnant pause before she said, "Now we're having a fight."

He used another of his pregnant pauses to increase suspense.

He had learned through experience that pregnant pauses always looked good during television interviews.

A long, pregnant pause elapsed before anyone said anything again.

Is it just an awkward silence or a pregnant pause?

There was a pregnant pause, then a little laugh on the part of the speaker.

There was a pregnant pause as Jeffrey waited for him to say more.

Then, after one of his pregnant pauses, he would add, "Yes."

Take a pregnant pause and see how you score on your first trimester knowledge.

"I see," he went on after a brief, pregnant pause.

The pregnant pause after the semicolon in that last line is marvelous.

There was a pregnant pause as Phoebe appeared to consider her options.

To that pregnant pause, he added: "What if he's telling the truth?"

She sensed Jeffrey pausing, a pregnant pause in the dark.

After a long, pregnant pause she added, "What should I tell him?"

Kline allows the pregnant pause, then picks up the beat.