stopping

Example Sentences

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People raced to throw life jackets out, but the unstopping wind seemed to toss the jackets back.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2018

O’Brien tumbles into her characters’ voices; the prose has a life-filled, unstopping locomotion: “her little Mini, her chariot of freedom.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2016

Hundreds of protesters, who had promised to be a visible presence here and filled several sections of the arena, let out an elated, unstopping cheer.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2016

He realises that he is disconcerted above all by their unstopping busyness.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2013

And we also ourselves were sensible of a great pain which attacked us, so that several of the bravest came out of their cots and began by unstopping the chimney, and afterwards opening the door.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World by Leigh, Dora