full stop

Example Sentences

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And sometimes that gaze is just discomfiting, full stop.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026

These are core financial tenets that should be followed 100% of the time, full stop.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 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

"Peace must come with the safety and security of our citizens, full stop," the ministry's spokesman said.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

Shakespeare called the full stop a period in A Midsummer Night’s Dream when he described nervous players “making periods in the midst of sentences”.

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