full stop

Example Sentences

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And sometimes that gaze is just discomfiting, full stop.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026

It will be a full stop for a generation of Australian cricketers who have never won an away Ashes and almost certainly for Stokes, who will turn 36 as the series begins.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026

Finally, thankful, full stop: Cardinal Robert Prevost ascending in May to the throne of Saint Peter, becoming the first American pontiff.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

More than once, Ivy had to come to a full stop to avoid getting too close.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake