halt
Example Sentences
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He halted the series in the mid-1960s, but returned to it the following decade and continued with it into the final years of his life.
A project to address the issues associated with the informal miners formalized much of Mutoshi’s work shortly after that visit, but those efforts were halted due to Covid.
An L.A. resident filed a lawsuit over the zoo’s decision and sought to halt the elephants’ transfer.
From Los Angeles Times
A bus screeches to a halt in front of me.
From Literature
At least 40% of Russia's oil export capacity was halted on 25 March following the first attacks, according to calculations by the Reuters news agency based on market data.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
