How to Use bring/put a stop to in a Sentence

bring/put a stop to

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• This is its virtue: to switch off, to put a stop to make-believe.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• To put a stop to the lies, the families filed defamation suits.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
• Would that put a stop to hate speech at public meetings?
  — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Mar. 2024
• In the Wirecard case, the decision to report misconduct to the press put a stop to the fraud.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024
• Still, eventually, the U.S. Supreme Court put a stop to it.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
• Cheli again put a stop to the rally, her 3-pointer stretching the lead back to nine.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
• The court’s broad ruling in AFP should put a stop to such efforts, but there are other threats.
  — Naomi Schaefer Riley, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• Doing so, of course, would not put a stop to all the fighting in eastern Congo.
  — Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 26 July 2024
• If its members had any guts, Congress would pass laws to put a stop to this EO madness.
  — Jessica Melugin, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
• Dunn, of Simon Gratz High School, is adamant about helping put a stop to the violence.
  — Abby Cruz and Kasim Kabbara, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2021
• The Conners is among the shows that had been using the more than 20 soundstages until the strikes put a stop to production.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
• Miller put a stop to it and has instead placed a single bet on Amazon Web Services.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
• Now Skinner is calling on her onetime teammate to put a stop to it all.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
• Can the townspeople put a stop to the (wildly creative) murders?
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 6 Sep. 2023
• According to the order, Newman got angry and put a stop to the meeting.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
• In 2007, the star was diagnosed with vocal-cord cancer that put a stop to his film and TV career.
  — Joy Ashford, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
• The pandemic put a stop to filming, which had started in March 2020, and redrew the scenario.
  — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 23 Apr. 2023
• After the shark kills multiple people, the town’s police chief, a shark hunter and an oceanographer take to the seas to put a stop to the killing.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• Council members did put a stop to some of the reductions proposed by Bass.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
• The fiercest critics of short-term rentals don’t believe the platforms can put a stop to parties or rogue rentals in general.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• Pass Senator Bob Casey’s bill to put a stop to shrinkflation!
  — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
• At no point did De León rebut those remarks, or put a stop to the conversation.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• During his State of the Union address earlier this month, Mr. Biden again called on snack companies to put a stop to the practice.
  — Madeleine Ngo, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• In many sports, the presence of blood will lead to an immediate pause in play to put a stop to bleeding, but that hasn’t happened in Pittsburgh.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024
• Jones was only 15 when Hampton invited him to tour with the group, something Hampton’s wife, Gladys, put a stop to right away.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
• These schools are relocating leagues at alarming rates so maybe Congress can’t put a stop to this?
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 8 Aug. 2023
• The big question is: Is enough of this influence being used to put a stop to this escalation?
  — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
• Allowing these protests at college campuses is not about free speech—and there should be no question as to whether to put a stop to them.
  — Gil Mandelzis, Fortune, 4 May 2024
• Small items tend to get stuffed into drawers and lost over time so put a stop to it by introducing inserts.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023
• Opportunities arise, but self-doubt threatens to put a stop to them.
  — Tarot.com, Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025