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Example sentences for "sudden stop"

  • Rotha, looking suddenly up at him, with such innocent, eager, questioning eyes that he was much inclined to put a sudden stop to her communications.

  • At the first taste of the oysters, it is true, some associations seemed to come over Mrs. Carpenter which threatened to make a sudden stop to her dinner.

  • The horses at this point came to a sudden stop.

  • Perhaps a mile down the gulch it came to a sudden stop in a great heap of debris, and a zigzag path started up the side of the canyon.

  • The sheriff's party came to a sudden stop, stunned for a moment by the complete surprise.

  • Inside the car, Halliday, who sat in the seat behind Mead and the sheriff, had walked to the front end of the car and was drinking at the ice-water tank when the train came to a sudden stop.

  • FIZ'ZLE, to hiss or sputter: to come to a sudden stop, to fail disgracefully.

  • On the instant the ground shook under the assailants' rush, but the barricade, which doubtless took the rogues by surprise, brought them to a sudden stop, and gave us time to file out.

  • My pony would come to a sudden stop on the rim of a great precipice and thousands of feet below I would see the Valley of Reeds with the settlement that meant home.

  • This they continued for a short time, and then came to a sudden stop.

  • It was brought to a sudden stop by the chief witch-doctor, who threw up his arms and called a halt.

  • Keeping close in to the wall he glided on, and had got some distance from the main road, when he saw that which brought him to a sudden stop--a man approaching from the opposite direction.

  • They had made a turn or two of the grounds, thus conversing, when both came to a sudden stop, simultaneously uttering exclamations of alarm, "Santissima!

  • Just short of Teeka's glossy rump the cruel talons raked the air as the rope tightened and Sheeta was brought to a sudden stop--a stop that snapped the big beast over upon his back.

  • At first Tarzan had been solely occupied by the remarkable juxtaposition of the spoor of Dango and Gomangani, but now his keen eyes caught something in the spoor of the little Gomangani which brought him to a sudden stop.

  • But Sheeta was handicapped by such a rope, and as he leaped once again after Tarzan of the Apes the rope encircled the small bush, became tangled in it and brought the panther to a sudden stop.

  • A dozen steps, perhaps, and he came to a sudden stop.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another island; before daylight; both languages; clear that; human beauty; indefinitely large; large enough; original work; sudden attack; sudden burst; sudden change; sudden desire; sudden fear; sudden gust; sudden halt; sudden movement; sudden onset; sudden rush; sudden spring; sudden start; sudden thought; suddenly appeared; suddenly occurred; suddenly stopped; thrown from; whom nothing