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Example sentences for "stopped"

Lexicographically close words:
stopes; stopover; stoppage; stoppages; stoppe; stopper; stoppered; stoppers; stoppeth; stopping
  1. And yet the danger must still have pressed somewhat upon him; for on his way to the lodge he stopped at old man Shafter's.

  2. The thing has got to be stopped right now.

  3. He had stopped Mrs. Douglas and begged her to go back.

  4. How long was it after hearing the shot that you were stopped on the stair by Mr. Barker?

  5. McMurdo sprang to his feet and half drew his revolver; but his arm stopped midway as he became conscious that two Winchester rifles were levelled at his head.

  6. I heard my wife coming, and I ran to the door and stopped her.

  7. The men stopped and gathered in a yard which faced a high building.

  8. Stopped in the straight when the race was his own!

  9. So many did they give us that at night when we stopped we had eight or ten back-loads apiece.

  10. These arriving, stopped behind trees to look at us.

  11. The Governor stopped there that night, and the following day he came to the habitations of Naguatex, which were much scattered, and having asked for the town of the cacique, he was told that it stood on the opposite side of a river near by.

  12. We followed them, and stopped at a place where we agreed to wait.

  13. They stopped near us with the first three.

  14. Because of the wounded, he stopped in that place twenty-eight days, all the time remaining out in the fields.

  15. The other boats passed ahead, and stopped at some houses on the island, where we found many dried mullet and roes, which were a great relief in our distress.

  16. P'rapsy thought of the big white bottle on the bathroom shelf, and stopped teasing.

  17. I couldn't see if--" Then he stopped abruptly.

  18. Illustration: How Tessa's little brown legs did flash back and forth] When the music stopped Jocko scrambled up to the window and politely presented a cup to the trees.

  19. Waggles stopped running, and dropped, exhausted, at the feet of Jimmie's father.

  20. The machinery stopped as abruptly as it had started; but Natalie was out of her agony.

  21. Since the ground no longer sloped, we could not go down-hill; there were no means left of telling in what direction we were moving, and we stopped to listen.

  22. And with that I stopped the cab and got out for I wanted a breath of air.

  23. Presently Black Joe announced that supper was ready, whereupon they all stopped talking, and fell to with ravenous appetites.

  24. His heart almost stopped beating as he watched the captain's face.

  25. Eric stopped to watch him, and following him closely with his eyes, saw that he ran up to a dark object that lay stretched out upon the sand, about fifty yards away.

  26. Nevertheless, he stopped and looked at her.

  27. She stopped and regarded him more attentively.

  28. He had laboriously reached the end of the veranda when he noticed the open window of Louise's room, and stopped as a perfunctory duty to look in.

  29. And nobody to-day probably will maintain that Russia lay under an imperious and irresistible necessity to go and be defeated by the Japanese in Manchuria; or that she could not conceivably have stopped short of that extremity.

  30. He further caused new and better books to be prepared for the public schools, and stopped witch-burning.

  31. The screw began to turn backwards; and, when her headway was checked, a single stroke stopped her.

  32. Did you suppose that ships that cross the ocean, being out of sight of land for weeks at a time, stopped in the night?

  33. I stopped the boat when we reached this place, and then let go the anchor, at Lingerwell’s order.

  34. The launch continued on her former course for a while, and then stopped her screw.

  35. If he had not stopped the boat when he did, she would have been aground in a couple of minutes; for there is a shoal south of the mouth of the river on which the water is only from one to six feet deep.

  36. Acting on the impulse of the moment, I stopped and listened.

  37. He stopped for a moment stunned, then he fell heavily, snapping the pole that was placed between him and the other horse as though it had been a match.

  38. He stopped and looked around him, then clenched his hands as though he were passing through a terrible crisis.

  39. When we had reached the bottom of the gorge I stopped suddenly.

  40. When I got into Falmouth town I saw an ironmonger whom I knew, and he looked as though he would speak, so I stopped my horse.

  41. The ice running in the Yellowstone stopped all the ferry-boats, and it was with good reason that we congratulated ourselves on the successful termination of our hunt at that particular time.

  42. The business-like, wholesale slaughter, wherein one hunter would openly kill five thousand buffaloes and market perhaps two thousand hides, could easily have been stopped forever.

  43. If the train happened not to be in its path, it crossed the track and stopped satisfied.

  44. Illustration: Where the American marines stopped the German advance on the Marne.

  45. The landing of stores was dependent on a continuance of favorable weather, and might at any moment be stopped for several days together.

  46. Waves of German infantrymen were stopped dead or thrown back, leaving many of their number killed or wounded on the ground.

  47. Leaks of energy were stopped as well as waste of material.

  48. Their furious attacks were successful in a few advanced posts, but were stopped by the Italian main line of occupation, which could not be shaken or penetrated.

  49. And all revolutionary propaganda among German soldiers and civilians to be stopped immediately and absolutely.

  50. It appeared that a gap had to be stopped in the bending line through which the Germans otherwise would have streamed.

  51. On the same day the Yeomanry got to within four miles of the Nablus-Jerusalem road, but were stopped by strong opposition about Beitunia.

  52. After closing the latter, the ewer is filled with liquid through an aperture that is afterwards stopped up.

  53. These apertures are stopped with corks while the box is filled with solution.

  54. Arrangements are provided by which the balls can be stopped before they pass through the floor.

  55. The old man replied that it was his own fault for not taking the customary precaution in such an emergency, that he ought to have stopped and sat down, until some person whom the animals knew came to protect him.

  56. I had meant to wear this myself,' he went on; but stopped all of a sudden at sight of my face, and began to laugh quietly, in a way that made me long to take him by the throat.

  57. She was stone cold; but the child told me--until I stopped his mouth, and made a guess at the rest.

  58. The noise stopped and I was conscious--with every high-strung nerve in my body!

  59. For over a hundred feet I continued that ascent to freedom, and then I stopped and listened to a peculiar fluttering noise on my left.

  60. Gran'pa had evidently stopped his machine merely to turn round and start on the homeward journey again.

  61. The music stopped and the gentle splash of the oars took its place.

  62. She dabbed her eyes, stopped weeping, and then turned on me!

  63. Again I started to protest, but he stopped me.

  64. Well," he remarked leisurely, "guess my watch has stopped again.

  65. On one occasion, when Ed Mason and I met a number of the parochial school boys out in the country, there was an exchange of epithets that stopped (as such meetings did not always stop) this side of blows.

  66. Horace stopped abruptly in his rush toward the fence, and Joe Carter, who had halted about thirty feet away to pour a volley of bullets after us, executed a swift movement to the rear.

  67. Back of a large oak, where we were nearly covered by ferns, we stopped and panted.

  68. But as soon as I mentioned the snakes, this perverse female backed across the room, her eyes closed, and both ears stopped with the tips of her forefingers, as if she thought my pets might utter some fearful screech.

  69. When I reached Higginson's toy-shop I stopped again, flattened my nose against the window, and observed the condition of the market.

  70. Susy stopped for breath, and Ed Mason found time to ejaculate:-- "Hoh!

  71. This last day of vacation to be spoiled-- Suddenly Joe Carter stopped in the middle of the road.

  72. But Denzil was stopped halfway through the door.

  73. If the coroner had stopped now, the jury would have unhesitatingly returned a verdict of "murder.

  74. Those papers that couldn't get interesting letters stopped the correspondence and sneered at the "sensationalism" of those that could.

  75. I stopped her, took time to bring her again to a quiet state, and then repeated the question.

  76. Some days afterwards, chancing to be in the neighborhood again, he stopped at the door to ask how the old party was getting on.

  77. Why, of course I do, and we even stopped to look at it closer," replied Toby.

  78. When once more they heard the deep-toned bark of that dog, Jack stopped in his tracks.

  79. I stopped here no longer than for the purpose just mentioned, and we continued steering along shore.

  80. They will read in the letter what was written in the spirit; their eyes will see the words, but their ears will be stopped to the music.

  81. He has revealed his heart with labour and good faith; not to hear him his fellow-men must have stopped their ears.

  82. Only a few feet high: She was tired, and we stopped in the twilight-time for her rest, At the crossways close thereby.

  83. Here the professor stopped suddenly, becoming aware of the eyes of the Democrat, which were fixed on him with a mixture of contempt and curiosity.

  84. This train went only to State Line on the day it left Hamilton, where I stopped over night.

  85. At last, seeing the beard was gone, I stopped shaving and laid aside the razor.

  86. Wearied with flying so far, they stopped to rest upon the horn of a dead ox; and no sooner had they alighted than they were changed into handsome youths as they were at first.

  87. When the ogre saw the path stopped he ran home again and clad himself in iron from head to foot and then returned and got over this peril.

  88. So thrusting his hand into the jar of pickled walnuts which his mother had said contained poison, he never stopped eating until he came to the bottom; and when he had right well filled his stomach he went and hid himself in the oven.

  89. They stopped afterwards at a public-house on the road, to drink grog, where they believed Thurtell must have passed them unperceived.

  90. At the corner of Mark-lane, I went into a little public-house, and stopped until nearly dark, when I went to No.

  91. In the vain and delusive hope of escape the wretched mother fled from the appalling scene of death, and ran to the garden-door, expecting to reach the village; but there she was stopped by the cool and fiendish deliberation of her destroyer.

  92. He said he had been at the Rainbow, and had stopped there until twelve o'clock at night, and when he came out he met some friends, who detained him.

  93. The case was on this objection stopped by Mr. Justice Patteson, who declared that the prosecution could not be sustained, and a verdict of acquittal was, in consequence, returned.

  94. Keens and I then went towards the Tower, and stepped into a gunsmith's shop, and stopped some time.

  95. On his return he was stopped by about sixteen men, and he was stabbed by one in the thigh, while another fired a pistol at him, the ball from which inflicted a very severe wound.

  96. I stopped about ten minutes without knowing what to do.


  97. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stopped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    stopped abruptly; stopped again; stopped and; stopped before; stopped short; stopped suddenly