Have end in a certain location

Usage examples of stopping.

In all the world there is not a human being who has not contributed something to the awful cost and the loss due to the destruction of property, the stopping of industry, the waste of energy and the curtailment of human endeavor in the interest of civilization, and the effects which the struggle has had upon the world cannot even be approximated in dollars and cents.

George agreed, stopping before her, Alfred and Trina arriving from the side.

If obtained by expression from the unripe fruit, it is very useful as an astringent medicine, and is a popular remedy for stopping a flow of blood from the nose.

He did not go in at the door of the house, but turned sideways along the ledge below the balustrade, stopping at the object which had been fastened by the woman to the coping of the balcony.

The bardling followed Am through a maze of corridors, across the rush-strewn stretch of the Great Hall, and up a winding stairway, stopping before a closed door.

Alec, stopping to nod and smile at the bright-faced figure resting on the old bamboo chair, after a lively game of battledore and shuttlecock, in place of a run which a storm prevented.

Charles received them graciously and, learning that they had been stopping at Bearn with the Prince of Navarre, presented them to his sister Margaret.

Heinz Berner paced ceaselessly up and down, stopping now and again to bang his fists against the door and to let out a loud, echoing wail of despair, the cry of a drowning man in the middle of a deserted ocean.

For some minutes the contest continued, Blotto alternately sparking and stopping like a willing but broken-down motor.

She was going out with the dogs, walking up the Lane, stopping at the Grange to put Bramble on the lead.

Which was as well, as he said not a word in the five hours it took to reach Amesbury, which was certainly beyond any possible stopping place of Cressida Mandeville and her family.

He was still tangled when some men from Marco, stopping by on their way north from Key West, found him hooked by his trousers in the mangrove at low tide, with his nose-warmer washed up alongside him.

Stopping on the threshold, the mariachi saw the other crooks around the card table, and turned questioningly toward Murk, who told him to step inside.

I put my head down and played up to the High Hole, the sixteenth, stopping there to listen as the surf pounded the shore and to watch as the high winds flung the marram grass back and forth.

This is the point, usually after successfully stopping smoking, drinking, avoiding studying, overeating, etc.