stop dead
Example Sentences
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The howl pierced the darkening sky and made Innis Munro stop dead in his tracks.
From BBC • May 18, 2023
Peyton and Eli can move around Scotland a bit more anonymously than they can back home, but occasionally Saturday, passers-by would spot one of them on the second-floor balcony, stop dead and do a triple-take.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2022
She misses the pork buns from Mei Lai Wah on Bayard Street that made her stop dead in her tracks.
From New York Times • May 12, 2020
You really couldn’t chip with a 56- or 60-degree wedge very much, because if you nipped it, the ball would land and stop dead.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 2, 2020
I’m just about to come out of the trees when I stop dead still again, for right there in the meadow is a deer, a young doe.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
