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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