standstill

How To Use standstill In A Sentence

• In July, the project came to a standstill for nine days when workers stopped to oppose the use of non-union contract labour on the site.
• The runaway bus eventually came to a standstill when it rolled into a muddy field.
• WALES came to a standstill yesterday for the biggest rugby match in the country's history. Times, Sunday Times
• If the yeast foods caused you to have an abdominal reaction, then you may find the weight loss came to a standstill this week. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
• By contrast, at the heart of the third version is the revolutionary turbulence of a "rotatory movement that never comes to a standstill," and which Schelling compares to an "unremitting wheel" and the 'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
• An area of Didsbury village was brought to a standstill as some passers-by grabbed wads of notes and ran off themselves.
• For the economy not to slow to a near standstill next year will require further cuts in interest rates by the MPC.
• There is a crowd of chanting people walking down the street, traffic is at a standstill and police line the pavements.
• I could see a log flip upwards, tumbling end over end to hit the ground and cartwheel to a standstill like a caber.
• Traffic came to a standstill for around 22 minutes near Ulsoor Lake after a truck skidded and collided with a tourist bus on the slippery stretch.