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Example sentences for: standstill

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Again, readers need to decide for themselves how likely it is that a Cabinet officer would bring a Washington dinner party to a mortified standstill by mistaking jelly for sauce.
Quite suddenly, everything came to a standstill: The rich and powerful left for England, and the city became a provincial capital in a state of long, slow decline.
The papers give precise accounts of the standstill with one glaring exception: none mentions the brand of computer that failed.
The Los Angeles Times leads with the standstill in the UPS/Teamster talks and the Secretary of Labor's increasing involvement in them.
The great spectator sport in Barcelona is football, and a match involving Barça, one of Europe’s perennial champions, can bring Barcelona to a standstill.