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    Use "pace" in a sentence

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    1. "The pace of change


    2. He got to his feet to pace but when he turned he saw that Herndon was coming around the camp


    3. Since exercise can be an outlet for anxiety and tension, people with Alzheimer's who are physically active may not fidget or pace as much as they would otherwise


    4. Studies have suggested that walking at a brisk pace for three or more hours a week can reduce our risk for coronary heart disease by 65 percent


    5. I pace around in frustration


    6. Figured it’d be a change of pace


    7. That representation is then stored in our computers and cross referenced whenever we need to find out where you are in the world,” Ackers said as he walked, never slowing his pace


    8. These things could not keep up this pace for the fifteen hours it would take to get back to that faint approximation of civilization


    9. She put her old car in gear and ground away at a snail’s pace into the blackness of the night


    10. slowed his pace, drew close, pressing his body into hers and as the music faded he

    11. Long before the fans stopped, a man in a service coverall sauntered down it at a quick pace


    12. Robbie turned and started to pace around the room, warming to his subject


    13. None of them had spared each other's ears when discussing the glacial pace of native construction away from a major city and the tribulations of trying to get something done about it


    14. She was letting Alan set the pace, Nlara was filling on top of the third of a cup they had not consumed


    15. He took half a pace forward, stumbling a little as the pounding in his temples overwhelmed him and stars swam in front of his eyes


    16. Setting a firm pace, she strode along the main road that led towards the bridge across the river; the station was on the other side of the river


    17. As soon as it was quiet from the receding stampede, a herd of something else meandered into the area at a slow deliberate pace


    18. It was a wonderful sight - my mountains! I quickened my pace and made it to the town by nightfall


    19. Lambs run on hillsides, learning to keep pace with the call


    20. Not far away large black eyes kept pace with the lovers

    21. He rose forward, and pulled her to him, keeping pace with her


    22. ” She quickened her pace towards the Hall


    23. The track leading up to The Centre isn’t wide enough for three to ride abreast and, taking advantage of the narrowness of the trackway, Berndt sets a more sedate pace as we turn off the main way


    24. as was her custom and mine, for I pace the night hours,


    25. Of course they were going at dragon speed, a pretty fast pace


    26. It was moving straight at them and at a reasonably brisk pace


    27. They continued at this brisk pace awhile, more than twenty minutes, until they were sure


    28. Daniel and Kate headed to the hatching grounds at a fast pace


    29. The wind was sharpening now so I shoved my hands into my pockets and quickened my pace, darting about and skimming round the corners and making good headway till I turned a corner and almost ran into a large woman chopping wood right in my path


    30. This went on for 30 minutes at such an unrelenting pace that the large black devil had to pull back momentarily and regroup

    31. Everything had been prepared and they would be healed at their own pace; “these two have a special destiny,” he told her


    32. ” They quickened their pace, and bounded up the stairs noisily


    33. Jake had kept pace with the goings on and now informed Jeffery and James of the birth of the twins


    34. Despite my aching legs I surprised myself as to how much I adapted once I found my pace,


    35. Our pace quickened for the final thrust and so we raced, slipping and sliding through scattered sun-bleached tree bark, fragments of branches and odd pieces of driftwood that littered the stony ground until we were close enough to resist it no longer


    36. A grown man bowling pace to a


    37. features be damned! The medium pace ball rose high on the bounce and smash!


    38. But it was the females who continued to evolve at a faster pace; secretly watching everything their Masters did


    39. Half an hour earlier, on the other side of that door, I'd been a foolish romantic nomad wandering over the land, crunching dusty tracks underfoot in tune with the pace of my life


    40. I remembered my dream, the one with the floorboards and stars and so let my feet pace out the steps without to much thinking

    41. IQ, but was not developing at the same pace as the


    42. minty yoghurt, he set off at a brisk pace for his parents’ house, but


    43. They would have to pick up the pace if they were to make the next shelter before it hit


    44. Hours later Rayne noted a sharp crispness to the air, no doubt due to the approaching storm and the wind suddenly picked up considerably; the storm was moving into the area at a fast pace


    45. The party continued on their way at a fast pace taking their dead and wounded with them


    46. “I would have told you sooner, but things were moving at a fast pace


    47. Whenever we were having trouble with the objectors to this project of hers, she used to pace up and down that place, furiously angry at their small-mindedness and lack of vision as she called it


    48. websites, or marketing other affiliate programs at a pace that you could not


    49. ” Brent rose and began to pace around the table


    50. She walks at a measured pace, letting the rocket fuse reach its zenith














































    1. “Hardly!” Johnny paced away from her in the small cramped confines of the steel elevator they were in


    2. After lunch Herndon paced, waiting for her sister's call, while she and Elond stayed at the patio table and chatted about social theory


    3. They paced out onto the balcony


    4. He stood and paced to the front of the stage


    5. Throughout the night they could hear Jake as he paced about the large mesa deep in thought


    6. He paced up and down, spinning round and shouting at the sky, losing the whereabouts of the accused and scarily out of control


    7. He paced only a short way


    8. Elmore paced a couple more times


    9. He got up and stood with Elmore, near the halfway point of the path he paced


    10. ” She paced the landing in front of the kitchen and yandrille space, from one bedroom door to the other

    11. On the track outside, one of them paced up and down, puffing at his cigarette while watching his colleague talking into his mobile


    12. ” She paced again, “I find myself drawn to this world in a way I don’t understand


    13. I paced around the room


    14. ” He paced back and forth, then turned and looked at Duncan


    15. There are times that it is good to be slow paced


    16. And there are times that being fast paced is necessary


    17. “The dark and secret labs where I was HATCHED!” She jumped up and cackled, then paced off a few steps and turned around


    18. Enjteen panted, seethed and paced the two paces of the room, stepping over the legs of the overturned cushion in each direction


    19. Several times he paced the floor trying to come up with a scheme whereby they could extract the ore and get it away, but without the car they were completely screwed, and he knew it


    20. Andy watched as the Sergeant paced across the floor and touched Ozzie

    21. up and paced the room impatiently


    22. The very first night he was roused up to sit in the big rocker in the great room with Poly, while his dad paced and hummed to Tania, Harry loved them


    23. They ate, talked, played and read aloud, cooked, cleaned, washed and mended, paced, hummed, sang and told stories always with the twins in someone's arms, lap, or perched on a hip


    24. All thru Nightday and well into Dawnsleep she paced the deck while the darkrunner toiled in foul winds thru Shipping Cut and the Grand Canal


    25. Now the week was getting late as she paced the deck back and forth, as if the speed of her steps could be added to the speed of the boat and get her there sooner


    26. She had paced to the far side of the deck at the time, she hurried back to that side of the boat but by then all she could see was the hair and jaw line, not enough to be sure, and it was at a distance in dim light


    27. ' He paced backwards and forwards across the


    28. Cardinal paced the room


    29. He paced, he breathed, he tried reviewing the extensive volume of information stored in his head from his ten years of study, until at last he had his butterflies flittering in formation and it was five minutes until noon


    30. He stretched and paced back and forth a little way across the porch and back

    31. When all stomachs were full, our four-legged friends paced the arena


    32. paced the room—as much as Roman could do such a thing I guess—trying to


    33. After returning from Todd's office where he removed the wrap that kept her arm bound to her chest, she’d paced the floor for hours before sitting down in front of the computer


    34. Coach Grouse paced around as


    35. Grouse was smiling from ear to ear and paced around


    36. But as I paced the


    37. He stood up and paced


    38. She wrapped the blanket around herself and paced the


    39. He paced the length of the thieves’ bar and the Cistern, speaking scarcely a word


    40. Without a word, he paced into the stall, scooped up Euredon, and marched out the

    41. You can't be serious… "This man belongs to Lady Dread," the man said as he paced away from Edrimer, putting a fair distance between them


    42. “Hey!” she yelled at them as she paced in their direction


    43. She paced on and on, her plastic bags rattled as they hit against her legs


    44. I should go through the back door, he thought as he paced towards the warehouse


    45. Edrimer paced quietly toward him from behind, with his gun aimed


    46. Unfortunately, patience runs out quickly in people living in fast paced societies, and faith is often lost in the process


    47. “Damn,” she muttered as she paced the floor


    48. “What? No!” He paced around


    49. Aspen paced back in forth in front of the Oracles’ Fountain at about five minutes after ten o’clock that night


    50. Cupid paced to the window













































    1. Half throwing me away from himself, so that I stagger as he takes his hands off me, he turns and paces back to the door


    2. I watch as he paces the floor, the TV chattering incessantly in the background


    3. Zitteraal nods, walks away a few paces down the corridor, stands near the fire extinguisher, waiting


    4. Teekra is speaking in Arabic - URGENTLY - into a mobile phone as she paces back and forth


    5. An INTERROGATOR paces back and forth in front of them in the dark room, illuminated by a dim naked bulb in a socket hanging from a wire from the ceiling


    6. He paces some more, stops in front of John, takes his chin between the index finger and thumb of his right hand


    7. The dragon took 5 paces and was soaring off the hillside


    8. She stepped away a few paces and held her arm out and whistled a shrill high warble


    9. The young man managed two or three disjointed paces before he too crumpled and flaked, finally tripping over an uneven paving stone and falling chin first to the floor


    10. impression that she could impale a charging tigress at fifty paces

    11. He paces around the room,


    12. A few minutes later a crossbow fell to the road not five paces from the group


    13. through all his paces, and he performs at the top of


    14. no more than a hundred paces from the road, but


    15. paces into the protective undergrowth


    16. The process of getting tanked is being demonstrated more than adequately by a mixed group a few paces away


    17. I am indeed surprised by your ignorance of the presence in your own community of an internationally renowned rod-maker, and not fifty paces from this very spot! Might I direct you just down the boardwalk to the Mercantile? There you will find not this sad pole's equal, but its lord and master!” The Sportsman exclaimed; then added, “I'm sure the tackle you sell is adequate for the leisure fishing interests of the tourists or stray visitor who might of caprice decide to 'go fish a bit, since there's a lake here and all,' but do not impugn the truly exquisite work of master craftsmen by putting these on offer for anything but what they are


    18. Once outside, the Sportsman led his two friends as he had just indicated, fifty paces to the hardware store


    19. Enjteen panted, seethed and paced the two paces of the room, stepping over the legs of the overturned cushion in each direction


    20. The ladies were perhaps ten steps apart from each other, and half way between from where I stood to where Harry walked to, at the other end---maybe twenty paces all told

    21. He held his hand in front of him and after he had gone twenty paces began to actively grope for the wall


    22. backed up as well, a couple of paces in front of me


    23. long time just to travel fifty paces, but the patience and


    24. He walked several hundred paces


    25. grumbled to Annabelle as they trudged a few paces


    26. would have felled a rampaging stallion at twenty paces


    27. outside an Inn not twenty paces away


    28. After a few hundred paces he realised that what had


    29. He walked some ten paces behind them, with a


    30. The young man stood up and moved a few paces closer

    31. There was already a large, round platform of about 20 paces wide, surrounded by four wide steps leading up to it


    32. At some point she’d thought they had spotted her, because they’d all raced out of the water in her direction; but then they had stopped about 10 paces away


    33. But after they dismounted, leaving their frightened horses some paces away, the man in trouble turned to them and raised a hand for them to stay back, to halt their track


    34. Glen jumped back several paces when Sebastian’s voice answered from the floor on the other side of the bed


    35. Lucy walked a few paces forward, pulling the face scarf up on her HEPO to cover the bottom half of her face, then she began to search with her torch too


    36. The chamber was twelve paces by twelve with a large marble fireplace, table, chairs, dressers, and wardrobe


    37. The circles were twenty paces in diameter in some cases, with four-feet-high walls of snow pushed up around the edges


    38. The front courtyard was no more than twenty paces by twenty with a stone wall to section off the back of the church


    39. The Court Chamber was fifty paces by fifty, polished blue marble columns supported a vaulted ceiling worked with gilt, and the floor was white and black marble squares


    40. All the lords and ladies were present in the Feast Hall which was over three hundred paces deep and half as wide with thirty-feet-high red brick walls and a cathedral ceiling worked with stained glass of wolves, foxes, lions, and dragons

    41. When they were only a hundred paces from the outer edge of the demon army; the horses pulled up short, skidding to a halt


    42. The two immortal kings wore grim expressions as they moved to stand a few paces from the bed


    43. Jean flowed through all four forms after moving a few paces from Hayley and facing the same way as her


    44. Adem stood a few paces to the side of Jean and Terese


    45. " He called back from twenty or so paces without turning


    46. The prisoners were told to sit on two small stools about twenty paces in front of the table and the armed guard stood behind


    47. He skipped a she walked and beamed a smile that could be seen at several paces


    48. A few hundred paces away from the cave mouth she caught sight of a patrol from Illeander, wending their way into the foothills of the mountain range


    49. By the time he was a hundred paces away, a cry went up from the crowd and it seemed a wave of people moved toward the jewellery stall


    50. He sat against a wall a dozen paces down, took off his fur cap, and begged for coins





































    1. The walls in the house are pretty thin, and I sometimes heard him pacing up and down in there in the middle of the night and I swear I heard him call out Liz’s name once


    2. Danilas, the goddess of song, saw Punka pacing about restlessly


    3. Ahmed weeps, despondent, pacing the room nervously in a bathrobe and fuzzy slippers


    4. I took to pacing the cell, back and forth in the darkness, refusing to light the room from my weekly ration of tea-lights


    5. was pacing up and down with a letter in his hands


    6. I think he was trying to make things better, however I starting pacing and circling him like a bull or tiger ready to pounce


    7. She was pacing the floor in the living room when Daniel came downstairs


    8. She turned and began pacing back and forth unconsciously


    9. She had the choice of pacing, laying in the hay, or sitting on the rim of the pallet


    10. Cordra was on her feet and pacing the floor again

    11. Alex Berisa has an alternative way of pacing out the empty expanse of Sunday afternoon


    12. B’theen does all his high-priced leg work and a lot of his spotting, he spends most Afternoondays pacing the docks


    13. Pierre Tours was pacing the room incessantly and his


    14. pacing at last and throwing himself into the nearest chair


    15. began pacing around the well, head bowed and deep in


    16. fist, then stood abruptly and began pacing the room


    17. began pacing the room - the better to think his plan


    18. and then began pacing the room with his chin buried in his


    19. his chair and began slowly pacing the room


    20. Claude pulled himself to his feet and began pacing the

    21. I could see Freddy pacing on the walkway and brushing back the tight hair


    22. ’ Ducroix started pacing the room and


    23. stood and began slowly pacing the room


    24. As lunch time approached he tired of pacing and told Zlifonn about Luray and Klarrain and that whole deal


    25. He continued his pacing for some moments, his head


    26. He went back to pacing, but it was an


    27. ” He got up and started pacing the room, a worried look on his face as he tried to think of a solution


    28. The king has gone mad!” he shouted, clearly irritated – pacing the room, clenching and unclenching his fists in frustration


    29. " He started pacing toward the tied man who had stolen his wife


    30. After pacing and a few flagons of ale failed to calm his nerves, Delvin quietly made his way up the ladder in the Cistern

    31. “Tell me,” Dane said, pacing, “Did Balthasar awaken you from the dead? Before you killed him and took his place?”


    32. She stopped in her pacing and looked at them


    33. I saw he couldn"t stop pacing, so I said, “now, tell me everything that happened


    34. She stopped pacing and faced him, surprise in her eyes


    35. By this time Nathan was pacing up and down, and on a roll He’d wisely decided to withhold all information regarding Ray, his renewed contact and involvement with him


    36. Grindel stepped in front of the pacing youngster


    37. As the misshapen badger continued his pacing, his one good ear laid flat along his head in concentration, the answer suddenly struck him


    38. In the chambers below Fire Rock, Grindel was pacing back and forth with angry strides


    39. Gathering some guards together he sent them out to scour the sett, pacing back and forth in agitation


    40. McKinley described pacing the floor and praying in the White House over the right course to take

    41. Ron was so angry, he starting pacing


    42. Pacing around the chaos, a woman with a tablet and a notebook snapped orders as she orchestrated the groupings of furniture into a different configuration


    43. He’d been standing, pacing as the questions flew, but he’d suddenly stopped and leaned onto the table, both palms flat, to face her


    44. Wow, what a thought! He wore a hole in the floor, pacing the patio and pondering how to know for sure if the Chiquita’s story was true or just bullshit


    45. The Patriarch had risen from his seat with hands behind his back, and was very slowly pacing around the columns, his form every once in a while disappearing behind a blaze of blue and white light, each time a sliver of his figure and face appearing grotesque and malformed behind the glass column, as if it had the ability to reveal what lay behind the facade of the Patriarch


    46. He began pacing, both with the intent of relieving his boredom and having some exercise


    47. In the meantime, while Hilderich seemed to be muttering to himself, pacing about the flat, matte black floor of the summit, Amonas’ thoughts turned to Celia


    48. He started pacing around the roof of the tower


    49. Late in the afternoon, he stopped pacing his room to go for lunch at the main PX


    50. We pulled up at Blazin's crib and saw him pacing around his garage and checking out his shoes with each stride; he looked nervous; he always looked nervous but that was just the way his face looked












































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    Synonyms for "pace"

    pace stride tread rate yard footstep step gait tempo amble canter jog rack run

    "pace" definitions

    the rate of moving (especially walking or running)


    the distance covered by a step


    the relative speed of progress or change


    a step in walking or running


    the rate of some repeating event


    a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride


    walk with slow or fast paces


    go at a pace


    measure (distances) by pacing


    regulate or set the pace of