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Example sentences for: halt

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Were the Germans and the survivors sipping cocktails on the veranda and enjoying a nice game of croquet in the garden before the polite conversation suddenly came to an awkward halt?
The liberal Guardian led Wednesday on "gloom" in NATO as China and Russia hardened their demands for a halt to airstrikes before they will agree to support peace moves in the United Nations.
I've been at too many parties lately with too many respectable Washington journalists who seem to think the name "Tom DeLay" is enough to bring any argument to a snorting, chuckling halt.
But lacking the means to enforce its decision, the United Nations was powerless to halt the fighting that erupted as the British withdrew their troops in 1948.
Some other things I'd like to touch on this week: 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?