How to Use grind to a halt in a Sentence

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  • As a result, life tends to grind to a halt when the sun goes down.
    Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The end of Moore's Law doesn't mean your laptop is about to grind to a halt.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2023
  • This momentum could grind to a halt in the weeks and months to come.
    Makena Kelly, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
  • With the fastest rate hikes since the 1980’s the property market has ground to a halt.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Whenever the government grinds to a halt, the rich don’t feel the pain.
    Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • But the downside is that if one part of the system fails, the industry can grind to a halt.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 19 July 2024
  • When that slow-moving wind grinds to a halt, a heat dome occurs.
    Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
  • Experts warned that many cities could grind to a halt with blockades.
    Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Every so often, a kid would use the N-word within earshot of a teacher, and the class would grind to a halt.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 Dec. 2021
  • When a recipe simply hits all the right notes, any thought of altering it grinds to a halt for a good decade or so.
    Aleksandra Crapanzano / Photographs By F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal, Food Styling By Kim Ramin , WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The final day of that search caused the Boston area to essentially grind to a halt.
    Mark Berman, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Dak Prescott has been on fire, and there’s no reason to think that will grind to a halt at Carolina.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The pandemic might’ve made a mess of most things, but life didn’t totally grind to a halt.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 16 Apr. 2021
  • But by then everything had ground to a halt with the pandemic.
    Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
  • There was a real risk that key societal functions would grind to a halt.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 June 2023
  • And the threat of those additional costs has caused shipments of solar panels to grind to a halt.
    New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
  • If the Strykers run out of fuel or ammo, the exploitation would grind to a halt—and might even collapse.
    David Axe, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • While the labor dispute goes on, work in Hollywood is grinding to a halt.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
  • The amount of goods entering Gaza has dropped by over 70 percent since the start of the war, and food production inside Gaza has ground to a halt.
    Cate Brown, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The turmoil led to its operations grinding to a halt last year.
    Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • All as paroles grind to a halt and overcrowding continues.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Until then, box office revenues are all but grinding to a halt.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The hurdles people must clear to get out of town when the system grinds to a halt can be excruciating.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2 July 2023
  • Shipments of wheat from Ukraine that used to feed Sudan’s cities have also ground to a halt because the government cannot pay.
    Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2024
  • As the fashion world ground to a halt, Hudson was devastated.
    Emil Wilbekin, Essence, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Small firms like Sergio Amaranti face a hazy future as exports to one of its key markets grind to a halt.
    New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Three years after the pandemic brought Hollywood to a standstill, the film and TV industry has again ground to a halt.
    Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2023
  • If the impasse continues and few investors want to buy Treasury bills, much of the financial system would slow or grind to a halt.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
  • Critics say they were aimed at giving him political cover as Gaza cease-fire talks ground to a halt.
    Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The musical grinds to a halt whenever Norma is offstage and a chorus of showbiz wannabes, clad in cargo pants and hoodies, scavenge for their next meal ticket.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024

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