stopped
Example Sentences
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City crews were on the verge of welding a manhole cover shut in South Los Angeles Wednesday morning when a surprise discovery stopped them in their tracks.
From Los Angeles Times
Scotland aims for 90% of patients to be treated within 18 weeks of referral, but Public Health Scotland has stopped publishing data on this target.
From BBC
David and Emma were then called by police and stopped in a pub car park, and told of their son's death.
From BBC
Back on the other side of town back near Union Station, two cars stopped at the station with their blinkers on during a Thursday afternoon stop.
From Los Angeles Times
“Meanwhile, Iran has stopped gas exports to Turkey following an Israeli strike on its South Pars gas field last week.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
