stopped

How To Use stopped In A Sentence

• If they have stopped doing it then they will have lost a lot of time. The Sun
• 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.
• We drove home in silence and, when he parked in our long driveway, I stopped to pluck some ixora flowers while Nnamabia unlocked the front door. Excerpt: The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• As soon as everyone stopped laughing, they noticed a few baby cradles at the other side of the room.
• She's stopped talking except for monosyllables.
• However, this morning the number key containing the dollar sign stopped working, followed by the delete key and the return key.
• We walked for an hour,then stopped and had a rest.
• They should all be stopped at the border by lines of claymore mines.
• I also have a goldenrod-colored scarf (you know, one of those pashmina-y things) that goes nicely with this, and about two weeks ago I was in "the city" (which seems to be what you call San Francisco, if you live near it) wearing this dress, that scarf, and an old denim Levi's jacket I swiped from my Dad in roughly 1987 (with bright pink leather gloves sticking out of the breast pocket) and a tourist actually STOPPED ME ON THE STREET and asked to take my picture. The Return (With Butterflies) - A Dress A Day
• Isadora seldom could pay her own way, but that never stopped her. ISAAC CAMPION