stopped

Example Sentences

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“I stopped to ask a few of them— ‘people said Kendrick kind of cooked Drake.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

But that has not stopped conspiracy theories and disinformation about vaccines and hantavirus spreading widely online -- another echo of the Covid era.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

“Thanks to the outstanding investigative work and quick coordination by the Ventura Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit, these defendants were stopped before they could further exploit a vulnerable senior citizen,” Ventura County Dist.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

In a ruling on Tuesday, the Court of Appeal stopped Menon's forthcoming case, saying it was procedurally flawed.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Even though we were now free, and life was returning to some kind of normality, this was the worst time of all for me because Peter’s letters just stopped coming.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo