15 Metaphors for stopping

"Our next stop will be Kadiak Island.

You'd think, to look at him, that stopping would be his favorite sport.

Every station a train stops at in the middle of the night is the infernal regions, and she shuddered to hear lost souls clanking their chains, which is what a milk-can becomes on its way to the van; but still she asked if this was the train to London.

I knew that stopping was a bad symptom, unless one had a good reason for itbut I gave myself a good reason.

Penetrating the upper valley of the Cernon, the railroad skirted the southern boundary of the Causse Larzac, then laboriously climbed up to the plateau itself; and Lanyard roused to the fact that he was approaching familiar ground from a new angle: the next stop would be Combe-Redonde.

Let the view have heavy foliage coming close up to the camera, the stop be a size larger than that used in our first experiment, and the day rather dull.

During this three hours' run the two stations at which the train stops are Gheours, the junction for the road to Mesched, whence the heights of the Iran plateau are visible, and Artyk where water is abundant although slightly brackish.

Change here for all way stations; our next stop is the Pole!" Barney, the daring aviator, sang the words cheerfully, as he settled himself in his place at the wheel.

"The principal stops are the following: The Comma (,) the semicolon (;) the colon (:) the period, or fall stop (.)

"The principal stops are the following: the Comma [,], the Semicolon [;], the Colon

"Stops, or pauses, are a total cessation of sound during a perceptible, and in numerous compositions, a measurable space of time.

"The first stop will be Palenville," announced Roy, "the biplane will be the pathfinder.

Our next stop was Imokentievskaya, where the head of the works looked as though he would have preferred execution rather than take part in a workmen's meeting.

"The principal stops are the following: the Comma [,], the Semicolon [;], the Colon

"The principal stops are the following: The Comma (,) the semicolon (;) the colon (:) the period, or fall stop (.)

15 Metaphors for  stopping