How To Use Topped In A Sentence
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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
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If they have stopped doing it then they will have lost a lot of time.
The Sun
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She's stopped talking except for monosyllables.
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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.
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As soon as everyone stopped laughing, they noticed a few baby cradles at the other side of the room.
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The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
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However, this morning the number key containing the dollar sign stopped working, followed by the delete key and the return key.
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The neo-classical house features a main doorway framed with Ionic pillars and topped by a balustraded balcony complete with carved stone coat of arms.
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In other words, you can look at one face and see loess topped by a paleosol and then covered in flow deposits.
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We walked for an hour,then stopped and had a rest.
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They should all be stopped at the border by lines of claymore mines.
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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
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Isadora seldom could pay her own way, but that never stopped her.
ISAAC CAMPION
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‘We've been on an economic downtrend for the past three years that needs to be stopped,’ said the head of the BDA employers association.
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I was getting really determined that I would hit the ball before we stopped playing.
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At roughly the same time, military orders for depleted uranium munitions stopped too.
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He stopped the seamen and dock workers joining the strike, but he did not take too hard a line.
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As his reputation declined, the sculptor retreated to his studio and stopped exhibiting.
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Upon these, and along the walls, which in most castles were topped by a parapet and a kind of embrasure called crennels, the defenders of the castle were stationed during a siege, and from thence discharged arrows, darts, stones, and every kind of annoyance they could procure, upon their enemies.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
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When she reached down to unbuckle her tool belt, she stopped: the gun.
FOLLY
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The firm shut for business last month after it was stopped from claiming legal aid cash.
The Sun
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Stopped at the Waikino Tavern and had a coldie - as always when I'm passing.
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A half-hardy annual, this variety produces tall stems topped with feathery pure-white flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The attention shone on her, as strangers stopped her in the street to ask about her imminent arrival.
Times, Sunday Times
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David's summation is simple: "In the very decade when it's clear that new antibiotics must be developed the industry has stopped developing them.
Family Affair
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As the train stopped for its human freight at each station it slowly gathered a cargo of trammies and bussies making for their depots.
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The forwards also seemed intent on glory as several rolling mauls were stopped dead in their tracks when the wingers were standing idle and unmarked on the flanks.
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Built in the shape of a giant beer glass it is topped with great views of the city skyline.
The Sun
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Once the IBM Cognos service is stopped and started, all new IBM Cognos Query Studio reports will now use the global template and display the title block as yellow.
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My mother told me about a dream she had before the sleeping stopped.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tarja strode on, then suddenly stopped, frozen to the spot, as three figures began to materialise out of the dust.
TREASON KEEP
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Since Vanguard stopped flying, airfares have risen in Kansas City and service has diminished.
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Other predictable starters included focaccia topped with portobello mushrooms with pancetta and garlic as well as bruschetta with poached plum tomato, ricotta and basil pesto.
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The aromas and flavours of fresh ripe pineapple are topped with a hint of honey backed by zippy acidity.
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As I watched him, he groaned and tried to raise his hands to his face; the chain from his wrist to his ankle manacles stopped him.
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Pictures like "Snoball," which portrays a snow-cone shack with a yellow topped cone is softened by his gentle sense of humor: it is almost a "Pop" painting.
John Seed: Rod Penner: Rust on Poles, Crumbling Asphalt, Light Hitting the Grass (PHOTOS)
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Around lunchtime we stopped in Christchurch, which is a much larger city than I had expected.
Stonetable.org » 2003 » December
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Or I’d order a cup of roasted corn topped with sour cream and salsa at a stand outside of Fiesta followed by a tamale from a Mexican butcher and a cheeseburger from Whataburger.
Home sweet (and savory) home! | Homesick Texan
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The Virgin and Santa Clara rivers snake easily between flat-topped mesas, following paths of least resistance.
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Not far short of the Oregon border, I stopped for a beer at a tiny townlet in a wilderness of sage that had a post office, a tavern and not much else.
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We were stopped by two hulking security guards.
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Participants on pay-as-you-go tariffs received £50 worth of phone credit, which they topped up prior to the week of text-message questions.
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After much blundering and backing, it stopped at the door: rolling heavily from side to side when its other motion had ceased, as if it had taken cold in its damp stable, and between that, and the having been required in its dropsical old age to move at any faster pace than a walk, were distressed by shortness of wind.
American Notes for General Circulation
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The good weather held, and at noon we stopped by a lake, and poured out all of our water, and filled our barrels with the soft water.
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Serve the oysters topped with the shallot relish and lemon wedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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The best way of getting pulses down my gullet is with dhal, in which split peas are completely melted, boiled with curry powder, garlic, chili, and then topped off with cumin seeds and garlic fried to a crisp which both add that magical aroma.
Pinto beans, three ways | Homesick Texan
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I have been waiting for days, but my fingers don't stretch the right way, or I can't find the tab for the chord and when I do the notes have stopped ringing and it doesn't seem the same.
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We topped the rise, encountering more of that lumberman 's desolation on the other side.
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That's when I stopped what I was doing, got out of bed and brained the one in the red pyjamas with my alarm clock.
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` ` Weel, sirs, I am laith to enter into deadly fued with you by spilling ony of your bluid, though Earnscliff hasna stopped to shed mine
The Black Dwarf
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The man behind us stopped playing his gusla, as if he understood what had been said.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V
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Every region has its own Easter bread, biscuits and cakes, often topped or shaped with Christian symbols like crosses, fish, lambs and eggs.
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The police stopped him for exceeding the speed limit.
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She stopped dead in her tracks like a scared rabbit when she saw us.
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He told how he was stopped behind a tipper truck with his handbrake on when he heard brakes screeching.
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Anna stopped to examine a plant growing by the stream.
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Outside his room they stopped, their bodies pressed together, his face only inches from hers.
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The serving table, attributed to Thomas Seymour, is topped by two extremely rare American knife cases that employ charred poplar to simulate ebony.
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He knew that something was wrong and never stopped to think about the dangers involved and that demonstrates what a brave man he was.
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A chain-link fence, topped with razor wire, enclosed the complex, which consisted of a large barnlike structure adjacent to a smaller adobe residence.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment
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She suffocated him by holding a pillow over his head until he stopped moving.
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I began walking down the hallway but stopped when I heard two girlish giggles erupt from behind a room.
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The camouflage Humvees were on every corner topped by national guardsmen.
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The Court of Appeals held that Hallberg was judicially estopped from indemnity from Portland because his claim was factually inconsistent with claims he made defending the previous suit on which he had prevailed.
One less bell to answer (Jack Bog's Blog)
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We came perilously close to a situation in which newspapers would have stopped carrying racecards.
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We secured the fires, stopped the fuel oil pump and left.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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We stopped to have a quick look at the church.
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I've been in no classified briefing that said he has stopped his program.
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a pizza topped with cheese and anchovies.
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The guys stood there in their dressy outfits and hair fixed and the girls stopped dead in their tracks.
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She stopped her excited babble and grabbed my wrist, dragging me off to math class.
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The wind stopped and the falling rain ceased, clouds slowly began to form anew.
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They stopped every five miles to suck gas into the siphon and feed the engine.
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It may be the wrong job for you - but equally you may have become set in your ways or stopped being proactive, which has resulted in the work becoming dull and unrewarding.
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The story about single people being stopped and asked why they are in Telford Central Park has not made the national press yet.
Archive 2008-09-01
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He stopped short in the middle of his story.
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The rain stopped as soon as we had positioned ourselves in the doors and windows overlooking the lawn and the porch.
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Gum Boots would have swallowed if he could have stopped his Adam's apple from rushing up and down his neck.
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Many such terms bombard the English language continually: some are stopped at the barriers of honesty and common sense; many invade the lexicon like novae, only
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2
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Rescue attempts were stopped because of bad weather.
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- We stopped in Coombs, quite possibly the most fabulous tourist trap on Vancouver Island
» Our Summer Vacation Strocel.com
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Seed sown in early June has produced a swathe of greenery topped by the most attractive blue flowers that seem irresistible to bees, hoverflies and other insects.
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He stopped when he saw her, her thread bare cotton skirt hiked up to her knees as her feet brushed the top of the water underneath a willow tree.
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We stopped there so the farrier could make calked sandals with spikes for the horses to wear on the icy roads of the mountains.
Wildfire
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My - dear - Count!" says I, astonished, and everyone stopped talking; the Queen looked pop-eyed, and even Albert left off prosing to the noble corpse beside him.
Fiancée
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These days the term bruschetta has come to signify garlic toast topped with diced tomatoes.
Undefined
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Masked protest, intimidatory filming or physical disruption is unacceptable and must be stopped.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lord North stopped at the chalybeate springs in 1606 when on a trip from London.
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The doctors have seemingly stopped replying to her letters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why have my blue lilyturf plants stopped flowering?
The Sun
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I knew I was playing pretty well when we stopped after nine holes to have lunch.
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In short, if the US government said the person was a civilian -- not a member of a foreign army or an irregular, but some nebulous sort of 'combatant' entitled to no more rights than a civilian -- it is estopped from claiming otherwise now.
Discourse.net: Nation Mag Claims ICE has Network of Secret Detention Faciilities -- in the USA
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Before entering Jerusalem, we were stopped by border police at a checkpoint.
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When the clot is dissolved or no further improvement can be made, the medication is stopped and the catheter is removed.
Thrombolysis
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He stays too low to the ground and is too crafty with the ball to be stopped.
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And the 67 year old bachelor told a court that he certainly hadn't been stopped for speeding, because the vehicle had a top speed of just 15 mph.
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Harry stopped under a street lamp and ostentatiously began inspecting the contents of his bag.
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When I realized that Hilda's was more than a normal crush, I should have stopped it I suppose.
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Chase Manhattan stopped underwriting and trading municipal bonds about five years ago.
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They stopped what they were doing and grabbed the duvet to cover themselves.
The Sun
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This vile policy of ethnic cleansing must be stopped.
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But that hadn't stopped the evil from rising as a phoenix from the ashes.
OUT OF THE ASHES
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The pipe has been stopped up already.
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Himalayan balsam's pink flowers are an attractive sight on the river's edge but it is a menace that needs to be stopped in its tracks.
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The motorist immediately stopped, as did several drivers travelling behind him.
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He didn't seem to notice, let alone give a stuffing, that the rest of the political world had stopped, at least for a day.
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The train stopped with a violent jerk , nearly tipping me out of my bunk.
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He had stopped writing now and had propped his head on his hand which was resting atop hundreds of unsorted papers.
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Satisfied, we stopped to take a breather and admire our hard determination, or lack thereof.
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She says that her ex stopped feeding the cats (country people often don't provide food for outdoor cats) and that the two half-grown kittens weren't there when she went to pick them up (she had found a person willing to take them in.)
Kitten Chan-ho and Kitten Chantho: Origins (Updated)
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Bones stopped at the gate only because Uncle Bean stood in front of it waving his arms.
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Born in 1930, Pinter was old enough to see and remember fascist actions in the East End and, of course, to be around when fascism stopped marching and started dropping bombs and launching doodlebugs.
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Jessie's wails died down to a whimper and then stopped altogether.
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The race was stopped by the commissaire following this bizarre happening!
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Topped with shredded carrots and a very sweet dressing, it also featured plump raisins sprinkled throughout, a very nice touch.
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Tots fell silent; birds stopped chirping; you could hear hearts beating amid the chattering teeth.
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We stopped at a little hut, where we saw an old woman grinding with the quern, the ancient Highland instrument, which it is said was used by the Romans, but which, being very slow in its operation, is almost entirely gone into disuse.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Compost mixes topped with a layer of mulch can help to retain moisture, as can water-retaining crystals laced through the mix.
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Iraqis talked about Hammurabi and Ashurbanipal as if they were relatives who just stopped in for tea last week.
Day of Honey
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And too often, balls were called "perfect" before they stopped rolling in imperfect spots.
ESPN/ABC in the rough on British Open coverage
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Kevin stopped to buy the evening paper from a news vendor.
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As I made my way back to my car, a dog fox trotted across the road in front of me, stopped, looked me up and down and then carried on, completely unconcerned.
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Luckily, we stopped in during happy hour to take advantage of the $4 maki rolls and $5 mojitos.
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In September last year he stopped eating and had a nasogastric feeding tube fitted.
The Sun
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We took a walk up the street and Capa just stopped and joined a game of cribbage that some fishermen were playing, and next there would be a girl, and he joked 'Where's your boyfriend?'
Rare Robert Capa print in auction of news photography treasures
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Unsurprisingly, few teams can have topped their table with such little fanfare and there was little in the way of a carnival atmosphere yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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I ask, when the keening has stopped several minutes later.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stepping outside, he noticed the rain had stopped, the sky had cleared, but the sun was setting.
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Friday's demonstration had a joyful and entrepreneurial air, with face-painters emblazoning the Egyptian flag on takers young and old, carts with fresh popcorn, and women offering hard-boiled eggs and koshary, the national dish of lentils, rice and pasta topped with a spicy tomato sauce.
A month after revolt, Egyptians march to protect their victory as neighbors demand freedom, too
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The man stopped at one door among the many, opening it and gesturing the detective inside with a nod of his head.
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She had two adult children who lived nearby, and had stopped visiting them as was her usual custom.
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All three buses stopped outside the pool, and each disgorged a tumbling jumbling pile of wee kiddies, clutching their swim-bags and chattering like flocks of birds on a nature programme.
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Tow truck came back about an hour later, hooked up the car… after a little panic when his tow rope stopped moving… and I had visions of them having to send out another truck.
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Said Mr Wills: ‘Careless driving and joyriding has to be stopped.’
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In an explosion that left me temporarily deaf, the cannon stopped pelting us with energy and began hailing us with pieces of its debris instead.
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I thought that would have carried on when I stopped using the drugs but the fog clears and your thinking comes back.
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Fans stopped exhaust fumes heating it up.
The Sun
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As the trees lessened, Zeke and Jon reached the dirt path and stopped.
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It was the first time I left the house without my hooter hider and for once I stopped being so goddamned self-conscious about doing something NATURAL!
Bare Your Boobs In The Air! Like You Just Don’t Care! | Her Bad Mother
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Interestingly, despite their team being 6-1 down on aggregate, Bayer Leverkusen's fans have not stopped singing and chanting since the match began.
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An evening meal began promisingly with a bruschetta topped with chopped spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, pesto and feta cheese.
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But as we rounded a bend, we saw that two cars had been stopped ahead of us by men in combat fatigues at a roadblock.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was about to repeat the "sonny" that had grated a little on Ned's sense of the proprieties but he stopped short -- and added: "Have you a card, Mr. --?
The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure
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Their curiosity piqued, they stopped writing.
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Suddenly the room started shaking, then, with a violent jolt, it stopped.
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He climbed it and was stopped short when he saw the size of the crowd on the blacktop roof.
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He stopped and crossed his eyes, his expression conveying abashment.
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This infusion is not stopped until the burr hole is drilled and the surgeon is ready to begin microelectrode recording.
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Sorry I'm late?my watch has stopped.
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The drizzle had now stopped and the sun was breaking through.
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Only a sense of uxorial duty to his position stopped Hadrian from sending Sabina into exile.34
Caesars’ Wives
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As my train arrived, the monsoon abruptly stopped, the sun came out, leaving me gently steaming on platform five at Reading.
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White picket fencing, kerbstones around plots and over-elaborate flower beds were also to be stopped in a bid to tidy up cemeteries.
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This, however, would not be positive so much as negative reinforcement, ie it was nice when the pressure stopped.
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I was a bit worried at her lack of street riding experience, but where the bike path intersected driveways and cross streets, everyone stopped and waved us through.
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Dustin Aksland for The Wall Street Journal On the second floor, a nook off the media room has a round Biedermeyer table with Frank Lloyd Wright barrel chairs and is topped by a spinning bookstand just like Jefferson, who liked to read several books at a time.
Inspired by Monticello
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Then it stopped being one of the big questions that people discussed about the books.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our giggling stopped with a burst followed by an answering burst of machine-gun fire coming from the river about fifty yards away.
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Anything that was seen to be unsafe, somebody stopped something for - stopped a ship from loading or discharging in order to have a look at it, examine it and modify it, or what have you.
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Litigator London: are you asserting a blockading power can only stop a vessel in territorial waters; and that vessel being stopped has to be flagged by the blockaded entity?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident
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Why has the train stopped? Ah, now we're off again.
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He'd been late getting back to the inn, having made a wide swing along the coast after leaving Miss Rondel and stopped to birdwatch.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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After a while of walking and thinking, the two of them had stopped directly before the restaurant.
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Kerry stopped short of offering McCain the job, sparing himself an outright rejection that would make his eventual running mate look like a second choice.
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Here we stopped for a day and a night that Xavier and his crew might get properly drunk on tafia, while Nick and I walked about the town and waited until his
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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We were on our way to Film Forum for a festival of Westerns, but first we stopped into Rocco's pastry shop for some cannoli.
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Christine Frazier, head baker, serves up chocolate-topped confectioneries to loyal customers and newbies alike.
Cupcake Happy Hour at Baltimore Cupcake Company
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The girl, who had been drawing her hands down her face in worry, stopped mid-action causing her eyes to droop like those of a basset hound.
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I done it like hern," she began, and stopped suddenly to look up at him.
Lodusky
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Her football and sporting activities stopped and she was left hobbling around on crutches.
The Sun
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You got so tired of nearly every risk-taking venture blowing up in your face that you've pretty much stopped attempting anything the least bit chancy.
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After a period of time in Ternate, she left and sailed southward of the Celebes where they stopped at an island and graved the ship for 26 days.
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Elfrida began with "Ruin seize thee, ruthless King!" but there were parts of that which she liked best when there were other people about – so she stopped it, and began "Horatius and the Bridge.
The House of Arden
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When they stopped by the Inn, Debbye had asked Wendy about the possibility of some nut meringues, and the vixen had happily supplied her with four dozen of the crunchy delicacies.
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Lisa's heart soared as they stopped dancing and she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back, mindless of the fact that they were in the middle of the dance floor.
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In the center of this Greek cross plan, he placed a rotunda surmounted by a low dome topped by a lantern.
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He strode across the marble floor and stopped only when he reached the lift gates.
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Everything was going OK until the printer stopped working.
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She had stopped to listen and offer words of advice, but the other members of that clique had stepped out of the shadows, laughing and jeering.
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The temperature often topped 50 degrees celsius and the hot thermal winds blew with unbelievable ferocity.
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Then, for no apparent reason, the train suddenly stopped.
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The cane of the vine is then taken into the house, if it has been wintered outside, and carefully trained to the rafter, the part next the ground being still kept wrapped round with hay bands, and the hole stopped close round the stem, so as to prevent the vine receiving any check from the cold of the external air.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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After dessert, and some well-received double whiskeys, I stopped off at the toilet before heading home.
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The car stopped within a fraction of an inch of the wall.
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I remember that with the help of my agent we stopped the publication of a calamitous German transmogrification of Loves That Bind where everything was translated and the Paris plane trees were transformed into banana trees.
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I stopped blaming myself for letting Tom treat me like that.
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First of all, while the new strategy document specifically cites al-Qaeda as the biggest threat to the United States, it no longer uses the term "Islamic fundamentalism" for the same reason the Bush Administration stopped using it, because it is counter-productive to a policy that relies on the assistance of Muslims to be effective.
Reza Aslan: Obama's "Weak", "Politically Correct" Counterterrorism Plan Will Make Americans Safer
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At Andover the River Anton has overtopped its banks and there are scores of roads across the south blocked by flooding.
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He drew 6,000 people to the Main Line Wynnewood train station on Saturday as he whistle-stopped his way across the southeast, south central portion of the state.
What to Watch When You Are Watching the Pa. Returns - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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However cold it was, he never stopped taking outdoor exercise.
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He was stopped at the airport by an assistant superintendent of police.
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If this had been a boxing match the ref would have stopped the contest a good 15 minutes before time.
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Although the trend's most recent period of reference is the '80s, when demure collars topped many a blousy shirt, observers are quick to note that the more influential time is the early '60s, when JFK led men's fashion trends with trim collars that sat close to the chest.
The Incredible Shrinking Collar
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Then I stopped the mower, and the cicadas droned on, on, on.
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She stopped in the middle of the fast lane facing opposite traffic, and a tanker carrying diesel fuel smashed head-on into the front of her car.
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We stopped by the thick boxthorn and Mum and Dad said, ‘We'll have lunch and then we'll go to the beach’.
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He pulled the automatic from his holster but stopped short of curling his finger around the trigger.
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I was aghast, and stopped her, telling her that every single one of those pills contraindicates my Tegretol.
Monkeyfister
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The cab stopped with a jerk that justified Wolfe’s attitude toward machinery, and the hackie stuck his head out and objected.
The Black Mountain
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The driver was cursing and swearing, but his fury stopped short of him actually getting out of the car.
