stoppage

Example Sentences

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Hundreds of Lufthansa flights were cancelled Monday as pilots kicked off a two-day strike over pay and pensions, with cabin crew announcing they were staging yet another stoppage later this week.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

Sensing that a stoppage was unlikely, sections of the crowd began drifting out before the final bell.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

In time spent watching football - not including stoppage time or extra time - that works out at 522,360 minutes.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Six minutes into stoppage time, Callender batted away a final left-footed shot from Pec for his season-best sixth save.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

It encouraged the leaders of twenty-four separate steel worker craft unions to come together under the banner of the AFL and stage a national work stoppage.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler