stopping
Example Sentences
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He said Mr Shabir drove the three of them from Keighley to Bradford, stopping at a petrol station on the way where Mr Ali told him to fill a canister with petrol.
From BBC
“I am looking forward to the silence finally stopping, because 54 years of silence is a long time,” said Bishop Kassianos of Aravissos, the abbot of the seminary.
Research suggests people may put most of the weight back on within a year of stopping the medication though, as their normal food cravings return.
From BBC
But in 2024, Saad began pushing the notion that empathy has become a “cancer” because it allegedly has no “stopping mechanism” and will eventually kill its host — the human race.
From Salon
Federal regulators call it a growing epidemic, and stopping the thieves has become a game of cat and mouse for law enforcement.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
