stopped
Example Sentences
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"I can't say it would have stopped him, but we should have flagged that something was wrong," says the retired civil servant.
From BBC
"My friend's husband was killed fighting there. The son of my cousin, too. And grandson," says Irina, who has stopped to chat to me opposite the mural.
From BBC
“It was swarmed with motorcycle riders. All the vehicles that were moving were stopped.”
Years ago we stopped paying “the highest possible price for the lowest expected quality” for a Valentine’s Day dinner out, as Mr. Fryer puts it.
The world has changed since the U.S. stopped testing nuclear weapons in the 1990s, and simulations and modeling aren’t a perfect substitute.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
