Words similar to halt

Example sentences for: halt

How can you use “halt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But such heady progress would soon come to a halt.
By the 17th century, Évora had lost influence and development came to a halt, preserving the city’s distinctive 16th-century palácios for posterity.
Using the Endangered Species Act, Suckling has sued to halt logging, ranching, cattle grazing, and construction throughout wide swaths of the Southwest.
I feel relieved, because frankly my entire life has ground to a halt for the last four days while I feverishly tried to think of things to say.
Did the bifurcated Roosevelt White House do a disservice in providing a model for later administrations, in which poor folks and children and the lame and the halt were insidiously sentimentalized as women's work?