stopped

Example Sentences

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Since the match against Newcastle on 18 January, dad Tom said people had stopped him the street to call him a "chicken nugget thief".

From BBC

Simon Fairclough, manager of the Guernsey Welfare Service, said while its food bank's stores looked full, if they stopped receiving donations their stocks would "empty in about a week".

From BBC

News outlets have reported that there’s evidence Nancy Guthrie’s pacemaker stopped sending data to her phone around 2 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times

None of this stopped the government from trying to push through the project.

From BBC

While Scott stopped short of calling for the Justice Department to drop the investigation, his assessment that no crime was committed suggests he sees little basis for continuing it.

From The Wall Street Journal