Example sentences for: stopped

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

  • It seems that last summer Gates and his wife took several dozen friends on a vacation trip out West, and at one point they stopped at a restaurant for dinner.

  • The reaction was stopped by addition of fetal bovine serum to 10%.

  • My son, who had rattled both of his deeply secular parents a few years earlier by requesting a bar mitzvah (for which, to our astonishment, he studied intently for two years, delivering himself of a whomping cantor-led performance and bar mitzvah speech in which he discussed in serious 13-year-old voice his intense feeling about carrying on a tradition his father's family had let lapse), told me kindly one day that he had stopped eating pork so maybe I could cut back on the bacon.

  • When Kincaid finds out that Drew is ill (the news comes from a family friend, since she and her mother are in the middle of a months-long quarrel and have stopped speaking), she flies to Antigua to visit him and to offer help.

  • But the extravagant parties and carefree spending stopped abruptly with the North’s victory in 1865.


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