stops
Example Sentences
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Optimists say the Strait will reopen on its own once the bombing stops, since Iran and its neighbors have an incentive to restore the flow.
Under any scenario, after all, the Hormuz problem likely solves itself when the shooting stops.
But work never stops in F1, outside the enforced summer and Christmas breaks, and this will be no different.
From BBC
A string of Japanese islands stretches across the East China Sea and stops less than 70 miles from Taiwan.
Evelyn extends her hand as if to touch my shoulder but stops short.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
