full stop

Example Sentences

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And sometimes that gaze is just discomfiting, full stop.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026

"No one should be trespassing full stop but no one should be swimming there at that time of night."

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

Last year’s full stop on hiring is loosening up a bit.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026

Despite Schjerfbeck’s time in Paris, she seems to have ignored what the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists were doing, but at intervals, early paintings make you come to a full stop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026

Meanwhile, the full stop is surely the simplest mark to understand - so long as everyone continues to have some idea what a sentence is, which is a condition that can’t be guaranteed.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author