Sentences with stop
stop
S s - A stop signal
- Stop throwing those stones! [V -ing]
- Stop implies a suspension or ending of some motion, action, or progress [my watch stopped]; cease implies a suspension or ending of some state or condition or of an existence [the war had ceased]; quit is equivalent to either , stop or , cease [to quit working means either to stop working, as for the day, or to cease working, i.e., to retire]; discontinue suggests the suspension of some action that is a habitual practice, an occupation, etc. [he has discontinued the practice of law]; desist implies a ceasing of some action that is annoying, harmful, futile, etc. [desist from further bickering]
- He proposed a new diplomatic initiative to try to stop the war. [VERB noun]
- The rain had stopped and a star or two was visible over the mountains. [VERB]
- The clock had stopped at 2.12 a.m. [VERB]
- The car failed to stop at an army checkpoint. [VERB]
- People often wrongly open doors before the train has come to a stop.
- She doesn't stop to think about what she's saying. [VERB to-infinitive]
- The cafe owner has put up the required 'no smoking' signs, but thinks his responsibility stops there. [VERB adverb]
- There was an Underground map above one of the windows and I counted the stops to West Hampstead.
- He insisted we stop at a small restaurant just outside of Atlanta. [VERB preposition/adverb]
- The last stop in Mr Cook's lengthy tour was Paris.
- stop talking
- To stop a car
- To stop a show
- To stop George from fighting
- To stop supplies to the navy
- To stop a letter
- To stop up a pipe
- To stop up a wall
- To stop a wound
- We stopped at the Robinsons' for three nights
- A bus stop
- stop talking
- stop that racket
- To stop a subscription
- To stop running.
- To stop noise in the street.
- Stop your work just a minute.
- To stop supplies.
- I couldn't stop him from going.
- To stop a speaker; to stop a car.
- He stopped up the sink with a paper towel. He stopped the hole in the tire with a patch.
- The Browns stopped the Colts.
- He is stopping at the best hotel in town.
- I'll stop by on my way home.
- The noise came to a stop. Put a stop to that behavior!
- Above all, he enjoyed his stop in Trieste.
- Is this a bus stop?