20 examples of when to stop in sentences

Lister had not exaggerated; his pluck and coolness had kept Ardrigh's engines going when to stop might have meant the loss of the livestock on board.

"I've some grounds for satisfaction, and I know when to stop!

He knew when to stop, this preacher.

I never did know when to stop.

The table was fairly groaning under the weight of good things to eat, for when company comes the average farmer's wife never knows when to stop bringing out the most appetizing things to eat ever seen.

"If I begin about her I sha'n't know when to stop.

Mr. OXENHAM'S weak points are that sometimes he fails to distinguish between real pathos and sticky sentimentality, and that when he tries his hand at telling a practical joke he does not know when to stop.

She liked his firm grasp, and his care that she did not fall; particularly since she saw he was satisfied to give her the help she needed and knew when to stop.

I always say it's a great thing to know when to stop.

I'm so heart and soul in it myself, I shan't know when to stop talking about it.

There was a roller coaster which knew just when to stop and start so that none of the children could ever hurt themselves upon it, and a little play grocery, a little play candy store, and a little play ice cream parlor so that the children could go there at any time and get cookies and candy and ice cream whenever they wished.

I think things were a little too stiff this afternoon for such youngsters; but Vandy is such a liberal fellow he couldn't do enough,nor tell when to stop,actually lugged up half a dozen bags of new silver and dealt it to the kids in handfuls.

They never know when to stop in giving correspondence.

She has wit, not so common a gift that you can afford just to take it for granted; she knows when to stop, selecting not exhausting; and she makes her epigrams by the way, as it were, without exposing the process of manufacture.

All these simple pleasures seem better to me than sitting in heated, crowded rooms listening to interminable music, or to men or women who never know when to stop, or rushing round to gain more information on anything and everything from Alaska to Zululand, and wildly struggling to catch up with "social duties.

Gabriel was placed by his companions in the centre; he was to warn them when to stop and when to recommence their march.

" My mother-in-law evidently knows when to stop.

But he always knew when to stop.

"The happiest thing of all is, I expect, to die before that comes; and the next best thing is to know when to stop and to want to stop.

What everyone needs is something to tell him when he must begin practising a virtue, and when to stop practising it.

20 examples of  when to stop  in sentences