stopped
Example Sentences
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Birkett said he still struggled with the confidence to leave the house, at the thought of being stopped and spoken to by friends he had known for years, but of whom he had no memory.
From BBC
Not that that ever stopped young men from reapplying the spray several times a day.
“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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
