What is "halted"

Usage examples of "halted".

Bakaan and the others halted in their tracks, spinning around to run, swift, to Rannach's lodge.

They halted outside Flysse's cell, waiting as the wardress applied her key and flung open the cage.

Davyd began, then halted as the doors opened again and Militiamen appeared, framed in afternoon sunlight, a captain at their head.

He halted a few steps from the bottom and surveyed the hold/as the silence spread.

His feet slammed against Oster's chest, and the giant's advance was halted on a gust of fetid breath.

He climbed partway up the quarterdeck ladder and halted, surveying the crowd awhile before he spoke, his voice pitched to carry to them all.

Gryme's leap halted in midair, his body bouncing back to crash onto the boards of the deck.

Others were of fresher vintage and stood still proud of the engulfing weed, as if halted only recently—but empty, their crews gone, presumably in a final desperate attempt to escape by boat.

The horse squealed and danced some few steps away, then halted again, looking at him.

He halted, resting his hands on the parapet of the descending stairway so that he might look out across the vast cavern below.

Some halted on balconies and bridges, nocking long shafts to great bows and sending arrows down like rain on the Grannach below.

He moved after Benjamyn, a protest forming—and was halted by Nathanial's hand on his arm.

And he saw them go on, beyond Ket-Ta-Witko into the other worlds, spreading destruction and death, conquering folk whose ways were strange and incomprehensible, and knew that if they were not halted, then they would take all the worlds for their and all the Maker's creation be undone and only darkness rule.

Rannach halted his borrowed horse, turning in his saddle to look back along the sprawling line.

The scouts halted at the ford, and when a lone Tachyn appeared, sent a man back to bring up the akamans and the wakanishas.