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Example sentences for: halt

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

Praising President Clinton for his federal transportation law to upgrade U.S. highways, the paper said that "without a similar effort on our part, American superhighway traffic will come grinding to a halt at the Canadian border."
And it's unrealistic to think that NATO can halt ethnic cleansing without destabilizing the region.
But take away the telephone and the world grinds to a halt.
The judge hasn't decided whether Microsoft violated antitrust laws, as the Justice Department contends, but he ordered the halt just to make sure that Microsoft doesn't devour the browser market while the case is in court.
Army striding through some South Seas devastation from Apocalypse Now . What's uniquely his own is the way the havoc periodically grinds to a halt to make room for "relationship" scenes, in which the characters maintain a soap-opera obliviousness to everything (crumbling skyscrapers, fire-breathing beasts) but their feelings .