stopped
Example Sentences
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“There’s this huge national pride going that has never really stopped,” says Matthew W. Sivils, a professor of English at Iowa State University who has studied Travellers and owns more than 800 tabletop games himself.
The companies avoided layoffs, though they essentially stopped hiring and slowed down training to better husband corporate dollars.
Jill is a keen gardener but she said she had stopped digging up the land over fears around contamination.
From BBC
Stocks ticked higher Tuesday following the long holiday weekend as investors finally stopped selling momentum, risk, and growth stocks.
From Barron's
He got a quarter of the way through, stopped for one night and didn’t pick it up again for four years.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
