Example sentences for: stalled

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

  • Later in December and again in early January 1999, more information arrived from the same source, reporting that the planned hijacking had been stalled because two of the operatives, who were sketchily described, had been arrested near Washington, D.C. or New York.

  • Reforms stalled, however, and the following decade saw a return to strict Soviet doctrine.

  • The Wall Street Journal "World-Wide" column leads with Russia's stalled drive into Grozny and the Indian Airlines negotiations.

  • Cars stalled, the light gone hazy under leafless sycamores-- nature's diction, as casual as you asking for a last glass of water, whispers in my ear words cotton-mouthed and sere as sloughing bark littering the roadway, rush hour traffic halting, faltering like my hand the day I signed away your flesh to the crematory fire ...

  • Meanwhile, Buchanan's negotiations to take over the Reform Party appear to be stalled.


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