Stop

I stopped at the traffic lights.

The riots stopped when police moved in.

Soon the rain will stop.

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.

This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.

A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?

One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.

The referees stopped the fight.

Don't let me stop you working.

When they have finished the milk they must be patted and squeezed to stop them exploding.

He stopped the wound with gauze.

Rotten leaves and branches have stopped the gutter.

I've had the cracks in the wall stopped with mortar by the builders.

To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.

to stop with a friend

He stopped for two weeks at the inn.

He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.

Springhaven had done so well last week, that this week it meant to do still better, by stopping at home till the money was gone, and making short work afterwards.

She’s not going away. She’s going to stop here forever.

[Francesco] Guicciardini, if his sentences were properly stopt, would be found in general both full and concise, whatever may be asserted to the contrary by the fastidious and inattentive.

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It will be noted that the specialist would have refused to stop the stock for broker X if he (the specialist) had only one order to sell at 85.

They agreed to meet at the bus stop.

That stop was not planned.

It is […] doubtful […] whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.

Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy.

It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them.

A fatal stop trauerst their headlong course

So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.

The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.

The Foxes were indebted to two crucial saves from keeper Kasper Schmeichel, who turned former Leicester defender Ben Chilwell's header on to a post then produced an even better stop to turn Mason Mount's powerful shot wide.

The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.

The American Rabbit Breeders Association holds that the stops of a Dutch rabbit should be white from the toes to one third of the way along the foot.

For neutralino masses below approximately 700 GeV, gluino masses of less than 1.78 TeV and 1.76 TeV are excluded at the 95% CL in simplified models of the pair production of gluinos decaying via sbottom and stop, respectively.