stopped

Example Sentences

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He stopped short, however, of explicitly calling for the rules to be diluted further.

From BBC

Groups of passersby stopped outside the city’s La Carlota air base—one of the sites targeted in Saturday’s military incursion —to take photos, exchanging pleasantries as they snapped photos of the bombed site.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Perhaps they are right this time, but in our view any indicator that has flashed a warning for 15 years reminds us of the saying about a stopped clock being right twice a day.”

From MarketWatch

But more recently, China has stopped making such calls publicly, opting to instead push for a “fair and impartial” approach toward peace on the Korean Peninsula—suggesting Beijing won’t contest Pyongyang’s de facto nuclear status.

From The Wall Street Journal

I read every word of that packet, and two things stopped me in my tracks.

From MarketWatch