Octagonal street-corner sign

Usage examples of stop.

But he was gone, and even being without him would not stop her from accomplishing what was necessary.

And do you also know that had your egocentric, blind lead wizard not been so protective of his silly secret of the training of young females in the craft, you could have easily stopped me from accomplishing all that I have?

I got that slug in my hip--and the keg hit my laigs and stopped, so I picked it up and heaved it back acrost the street.

When he got no response from his verbal attempts, actually poking her foot with his toe so that she looked up at him in shock and affrontery before she could stop herself.

Then suddenly they were gone, all stopped together, and the water resumed its flat oily calm, only the smell of sulphur hanging on the air to remind us that we were aground on a submarine volcano that was fissured with gas-vents like a colander.

The sobs which interrupted the short and simple allocution which the pastor made to his flock overcame him so much that he stopped and said no more, except to invite all present to fervent prayer.

He never stopped alluding to their fate, determined to undermine any prospect of relief.

In the white he lifted the child off her feet, knowing that she would stop short in amazement, lest he run over her.

The inspector had stopped suddenly, and was staring with a look of absolute amazement at a paper upon the table.

The amplitude of a given vibration can thus be predetermined by the adjustment of the sliding stop.

Grumbler stopped again, momentarily confused, angrily tempted to lob a magnapult canister across the broken terrain toward the impact, but the emissary ear reported no physical movement from the area.

The Antelope people were glad to stop and rest and talk with the others.

We need to stop telling ourselves the same old anthropocentric bedtime stories.

If this is a virus infection, we might only need to find an antibody for inoculation to stop it in its tracks.

When he stopped looking at her legs and breasts in anticipation he saw there was a daunting expression on her face.