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How to use pace in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Pace means a step taken with the foot. Example: “Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.”

Examples of pace by meaning

nounThe distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.

  • Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.
  • I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces.

nounA manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.

  • We set off at a round pace.
  • Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport

nounSpeed or velocity in general.

  • The fastest women runners can run a mile in well under five minutes, but in order to reach that goal they've had to train at a much slower pace over thousands of miles.1983, Kathryn Lance, Running for Health, Bantam, →ISBN

nounA measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.

  • He didn't bowl a lot of pace in the first T20I.

nounA group of donkeys (asses).

  • A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.2006 November 9, “Drop the dead donkeys”, in The Economist
  • Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 200
  • we see and then imitate the pros moving about as quickly as a pace of asses pulling cannon through the Pripet Marshes.1974, Al Barkow, Golf's Golden Grind: A History of the PGA Tour, Burford Books, page 41

verbTo set the speed.

  • I helped her train for the marathon by pacing her on a bike.
  • The clubs in London, Manchester, Birmingham, etc., hold various track meetings for races varying from one mile to fifty miles, the longer distances being sometimes paced by tandems.1921, W. F. Grew, The Cycle Industry, London, page 70

prepositionWith all due respect to.

  • She is marvelous here, but he (pace many critics) is no bumpkin1998, Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

More sentences with pace

  • She had to accelerate her work pace to meet the deadline.From the entry accelerate
  • The dancer kept pace with the shifting tempo of the music.From the entry tempo
  • Home sales remained steady, although running slightly below the previous month's heady pace.From the entry heady
  • After a week of working at a frenetic pace, she was ready for Saturday.From the entry frenetic
  • He runs so slowly that I can outwalk his running pace!From the entry outwalk
  • This pitch is usually preferred for spin than pace.From the entry spin
  • Visitors progress through the museum at their own pace.From the entry progress
  • The play moved along at a merry pace.From the entry merry
  • The heady pace of manufacturing stands in contrast to some of the recent news on how consumers are faring.From the entry heady
  • He bowls medium pace in the nets.From the entry medium pace
  • The race started at a cracking pace.From the entry cracking
  • The soldiers filed way at a quick pace.From the entry file away
  • She proceeded at a moderate, unhurried pace.From the entry unhurried
  • He came running around the corner at a breakneck pace and couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting the fruit stand.From the entry breakneck
  • My grandmother drives her car at a snail's pace.From the entry snail's pace
  • He rose and began to pace, prowlingly, about the room.From the entry prowlingly
  • We climbed the hill at a quickish pace.From the entry quickish
  • Their new striker has pace to burn.From the entry to burn
  • They moved at a splitting pace.From the entry splitting
  • The new fire chief really put us through our paces: we had to wash all the fire trucks and then had two different fire drills.From the entry put someone through their paces
  • When I test-drove the new car, the salesman let me take it out to the freeway to put it through its paces.From the entry put someone through their paces
  • I was playing Super Mario and was on a PB pace but out of nowhere this invis wall showed up and the run was dead.From the entry invis
  • She worked at a snailesque pace.From the entry snailesque
  • Such was the pace with which I, and many like me, the so called ‘weekend warriors’ or Territorial Army, were hoisted aboard the Gulf War battle wagon.From the entry weekend warrior
  • Bradley Barcola, on for Kvaratskhelia, menaced with his jet-heeled pace on the counter.2026 May 30, David Hytner, “Paris Saint-Germain retain Champions League as Arsenal dream dashed in shootout”, in The Guardian, archived…. From the entry menace
  • But lately, experts warn, the pace of disassembly has accelerated, stoked by the human-made climate crisis.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic. From the entry disassembly
  • OpenAI, which ignited the boom, continues to set the pace in many ways.2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time. From the entry set the pace
  • Pass-fail gives students flexibility and time to learn content and material at their own pace.2024 September 16, Opinion Department, “TIAS | It’s Time to Weed Out Weeder Courses”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, archived from the original…. From the entry pass-fail

Meaning of pace

  1. noun A step taken with the foot.
  2. noun The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
  3. noun A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.

Full definition of pace

Questions about pace in a sentence

How do you use pace in a sentence?
Pace is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.”
What is a short sentence with pace?
“She worked at a snailesque pace.”
What does pace mean?
Pace means a step taken with the foot.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pace (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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