a pregnant pause in a sentence

Examples

1. When ABC's Charles Gibson asks Pete Rose, " Did you bet on baseball ? " there is a pregnant pause.
2. There was a pregnant pause in the conversation, the moment of silence where you could see him contemplating the information that he had just received,
3. With a pensive look and a pregnant pause, Phil Jackson eased into his assigned seat at the front of the room, the one behind the table with all the microphones on it.
4. It was never fully explained and when asked on Tuesday what the cause was, Shimizu went into a pregnant pause, scratched his hair and laughed embarrassingly while dozens of Japanese cameras clicked.
5. 9 . Hannah Storm : She quite literally took a pregnant pause during halftime of a prime-time NBA playoff game between Chicago and Indiana to announce a " major development in the world of sports ."
6. After an abrupt end to the second theme and a pregnant pause, a minor dotted-rhythm chordal theme in F-minor suddenly enters fortissimo, elaborating and modulating before sublimating into a pianissimo version of itself in the parallel major.
7. With the way the Dodgers have played the last three weeks, and the belief they were hurt by poor calls by umpires, it felt like more than a pregnant pause before third-base umpire Joe West ruled Green held his swing.
8. After a long drawn-out conclusion which grows ever quieter while continually building the tension, we have a belch from the orchestra and a pregnant pause, followed by a quiet restatement of the theme on the piano accompanied by pizzicato strings.
9. Benny was known for comic timing and the ability to cause laughter with a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated " " Well ! " " His radio and television programs, popular from the 1930s to the 1970s, were a major influence on the sitcom genre.
10. Regaining his composure, Kavanaugh extends his hand to Lem and says,  . . . any man d be lucky to have you in his corner .  After a pregnant pause, Lem reaches out and grasps Kav s hand in a conciliatory manner, but also tells Kav to stop pursuing matters further.