stop dead
Example Sentences
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Although, as the driverless industry notes, robot cars don’t get tired, don’t drive drunk or high, and aren’t distracted by their iPhones, they do often stop dead in traffic for no apparent reason.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2023
The howl pierced the darkening sky and made Innis Munro stop dead in his tracks.
From BBC • May 18, 2023
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
Then she touched me, and then I did stop dead.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
