26069 examples of stops in sentences

"We won't dare to start out when it first stops; but there'll come a little clearing-up shower after that, and then I think we'll have a fair day.

He has come now; stops to look at his wife's face, as though its fairness and meaning were new to him always.

One man stops in his hurried work, and looking out, grows cool in its tranquil calm.

No furnace can supply the place of it; for, though the furnace is an indispensable auxiliary in severe cold, and though, well managed, it need not vitiate the air, yet, like all contrivances for supplying heated air instead of heat, it has the insurmountable defect of not warming the body directly, nor until all the surrounding air be warmed first, and thus stops the natural reaction and the brace and stimulus derived from it.

The "knocker-up" had shouldered his long wand, and paddled home to bed again; and the little stalls, at which the early workman stops for his half-penny cup of coffee, were packing up.

It stops at the door of the cabin.

The republican theory stops with the shore.

While it stops, I'll peep in, and see where it's going to.

The two principal stations have been Yanghi-Hissar, where the train stops ten minutes, and Kizil, where it stops a quarter of an hour.

The two principal stations have been Yanghi-Hissar, where the train stops ten minutes, and Kizil, where it stops a quarter of an hour.

As we go along I must mention a few of the principal stations at which the train stops to take in coal and water.

At first the letters were only divided into lines, then into separate words, which, by degrees, were noted with accents, and distributed by points, and stops into periods, paragraphs, chapters, and other divisions.

At first there were a good many stops, but on the whole the engines seemed to be improving all the time.

We are quite steady on the march now, and though not fast yet get through with few stops.

Evans' party got away first; we followed, and for some time helped them forward at their stops, but this proved altogether too much for us, so I forged ahead and camped at 1 P.M., as the others were far astern.

It was an enormous relief yesterday to get steady going without involuntary stops, but yesterday and this morning, once the sledge was stopped, it was very difficult to start againthe runners got temporarily stuck.

Even now one feels the cold strike directly one stops.

We are in a very tight place indeed, but none of us despondent yet, or at least we preserve every semblance of good cheer, but one's heart sinks as the sledge stops dead at some sastrugi behind which the surface sand lies thickly heaped.

"Or we | sometimes | pass an | hour Under | a green | willow, That de | -fends us | from the | shower, Making | earth our | pillow; Where we | may Think and | pray, B=e'fore | death Stops our | breath: Other | joys, Are but | toys,

Never the | ocean-wave | falters in | flowing; Never the | little seed | stops in its | growing; More and more | richly the | rose-heart keeps | glowing, Till from its | nourishing | stem it is | riven.

Johnson, Bicknell, Burn, Churchill, and Nutting, have "Here" for "Where" in the fifth line above; and Bicknell and Burn have "Stop" in the eighth line, where the rest read "Stops."

Rather an elaborate list of Dryden's publications is given, but it stops at Amboyna (1673).

From childhood, she had known what are the obligations of the wife of the captain of a ship when he stops at home for a few days, like a bird of passage.

Football sweepstakes where the football stops, football pool.

Football sweepstakes, where the football stops, football pool.

26069 examples of  stops  in sentences