- present participle of stop.
stopping
Example Sentences
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"However, the reality is that the US president is unconcerned. He does not consider stopping or backing down simply because Kuwait is targeted," he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Video from the scene shows the truck moving through the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vermont without stopping.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
For beginners, the NHS Couch to 5K programme offers a free nine-week plan designed to gradually build fitness and help people run five kilometres without stopping.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
You can blame the rest of us for not stopping it before it got this bad.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
He looks around the room, his eyes stopping on Kendrick for a second.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
There were so many things going on with the police stoppings and stuff at the time, and it just really hit me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
Smith also likes to push his clarinet above top C or to engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it took them an hour or two to reach the carryall, with frequent stoppings for rest, and when they reached it, no one was in it.
From The Peterkin papers by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale
In one of these stoppings, Lord Courtown backed a little from the suite to talk with us, and he said he saw what benefit I reaped from the waters!
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney
He roused the men, and the stoppings were at once removed from the loopholes.
From The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
