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Example sentences for "cannot stop"

  • Like them or not, they must and will perform their office, and we cannot stop them.

  • He can mount a fact or an idea, and guide it more or less completely, but he cannot stop it.

  • Unless the will maintain a certain control over these movements, which it cannot stop, but can to some extent regulate, men are very apt to try to get at the machine by some indirect system of leverage or other.

  • We cannot stop to note all the family broils occasioned by Joan’s jealousy.

  • The nobles remonstrated with the king for so risking his life, but Ferdinand unselfishly answered,— “I cannot stop to calculate chances, when my subjects are perilling their lives for my sake.

  • We cannot stop to trace the life of Judith any farther, but we must mention that Alfred the Great afterwards gave his daughter Elfrida in marriage to the second count of Flanders, who was the eldest son of Judith.

  • But around the cradles of these two royal babies many contentions arose, which we cannot stop to note.

  • But we cannot stop now, and it is utterly impossible for them to get there anyway.

  • But we cannot stop to enumerate all the conveniences and appurtenances of the wonderful sky-ship, now hastening toward its destination.

  • I cannot stop to explain all this to you, but you can rest assured that it is the only help or hope for your wife.

  • How they are scattered, and many other secrets of the sun-waves, we cannot stop to consider not, but must pass on to ask - What work do the sunbeams do for us?

  • I cannot stop to say more than that its collections of paintings and of sculpture is probably much larger than any other in the world.

  • I cannot stop to speak of the world-renowned astronomical clock which is contained in this cathedral.

  • We cannot stop to trace these complicated and transient arrangements, or the rebellions of the undutiful sons, who set the worst possible example to the ambitious and disorderly nobles.

  • We cannot stop to describe these courts, which became especially notorious in Spain some two centuries after their establishment.

  • We cannot stop to relate the romantic and absorbing story of his long struggle with the popes.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blood and; cannot abide; cannot believe; cannot but; cannot come; cannot describe; cannot escape; cannot expect; cannot find; cannot give; cannot have; cannot leave; cannot live; cannot omit; cannot possibly; cannot remember; cannot represent; cannot sleep; cannot speak; cannot stay; cannot stop; cannot think; future happiness; little better; saturated solution; vary much