Calls it a career

Usage examples of stops.

His only work became the gathering of dry manure for fuel during stops, and the polishing of kitchen implements during days in the wagon.

And when a dream-plan stops being possible, it turns into a pipe dream.

It was possible, of course, that McGarand had put the thing in a garage somewhere, and he had made a mental note to look up fuel companies in the area and make the rounds of those if the truck stops came up empty.

They traveled steadily, making no exploratory side trips or hunting forays, no early stops to relax or enjoy Pleasures.

When a man gives her the signal, wherever she is, or whatever she is doing, she stops and answers his need.

He had planned the route they would take, and the stops, to take advantage of certain known watering places.

Meeting place had been changed stopped off at a Sungaea Camp as he was making his stops and told us they were very sick.

Alexander asked her to get off a few stops before Fifth Soviet, near the redbrick Grechesky Hospital on Second Soviet and Grechesky.

His features bore no sign of that deep emotion which stops the beating of the heart and blanches the cheek.

A Porsche traveling at, say, ninety miles an hour, with no stops or slowdowns, would take at least seven hours to make the trip.

They had ridden all day, their few rest stops only five minutes long, their lunch break, which they had taken in Randolph, only half an hour.

The slug stops, but it seems to do so reluctantly, as if it has come alive, and part of its liveliness is a resentment of the physical law which deals with inertia.

He stares at the smoke roiling in the air beneath the merciless light until his hand stops shaking.

We must posit a universe that stops and starts, stops and starts, countless billions of times per microsecond, as it jumps from state to state.