stopped

Example Sentences

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Under these conditions, experts believed that exchanges between the atmosphere and oceans largely stopped, suppressing short term climate shifts for millions of years.

From Science Daily

Triggered by a hereditary condition, his heart stopped.

From BBC

He stopped drinking coffee to see whether that would help before having a screening test.

From BBC

I’m pretty sure that means “be nice,” but I also stopped paying attention to his French lessons about five years ago.

From Literature

By nightfall even that small flow had stopped.

From Literature