grinding halt

This would freeze the settlements by bringing construction to a grinding halt.

Even before the boy signaled, the car came to a grinding halt a short distance away.

They smacked into the tangle of Star Point trucks, and came to a grinding halt, men piling out ready for battle.

Before a three-story gray stone building the car came to a grinding halt.

A taxi had come to a grinding halt directly below the window.

The copper-yellow glow of the comet seemed to have brought the whole world to a grinding halt.