How to Use halt in a Sentence

halt

1 of 2 verb

• Some are angry that more isn’t being done to halt the bloodshed.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• Once the food was secured, the bear left the freezer drawer open and halted itself on top of the freezer door to reach the open window.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 14 Oct. 2023
• Apache Stronghold filed suit in January 2021 to halt the swap.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
• Over the weekend, Smith's team said the district court should deny the request to halt the proceedings.
  — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2023
• The suit says the IRS hasn't done enough to halt the airing of his personal information.
  — Time, 18 Sep. 2023
• South Africa brought the case, which goes to the core of one of the world’s most intractable conflicts, and had asked the court to order Israel to halt its operation.
  — Mike Corder, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• Justin Hollins followed with a sack, then Khalil Mack added one to halt a drive, and Khalil came back with another to end a drive (third straight game with 2).
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
• The popular video-sharing app is suing Montana to halt a first-of-its-kind state law that would ban TikTok in the state on Jan. 1.
  — David McCabe, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Bishop’s halted seven SFC drives in its territory on the way to a shutout.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2023
• Yet nothing seems to be halting its reign as one of the most popular Halloween flicks ever.
  — Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2023
• This is where Ukrainian forces drew the line on the Russian advance in May 2022, halting it for half a year at a high cost of destruction to houses and lives.
  — Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• Both leagues will halt regular-season play for a month to complete the World Cup-style tournament.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• The reality, of course, is that there is no way to halt A.I.’s development.
  — Carmine Di Sibio, Fortune, 19 June 2023
• This summer’s guidance to halt the medication for up to a week may not go far enough, either.
  — Jonel Aleccia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
• Just as quickly, the mutiny was over the next day, ending with the announcement that Prigozhin would halt his march on Moscow and accept exile to Belarus.
  — Julian E. Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
• The other is to halt any further decline in the countries’ relationship.
  — David McCabe, New York Times, 17 June 2023
• But concern over the players’ safety wasn’t the only reason the transfers were halted, say those with knowledge of the league’s thinking.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• The agency backed off this year after a federal judge in San Jose rejected its request to halt the deal.
  — Joel Rosenblatt, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
• That buildup, and the inevitable progression of the disease, is something that scientists have known about for decades and have been trying to halt or reverse.
  — AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
• Officials were able to halt traffic across the bridge after the ship's crew sent out an emergency alert in response to a power issue.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
• But progress has been halting, with unions that represent many rank-and-file federal workers demanding a say in the changes.
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• The World Food Program also warned that famine was imminent in the north of the enclave, where violence forced it to halt aid deliveries.
  — NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
• Southwest Airlines pilots were denied a request to halt contract talks with the carrier, a step that could have brought them closer to a strike.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
• More than 20 trains were affected, and freight traffic was halted as a precaution.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• As Lake Powell shrunk, the river cut through the layers of sediment left behind—dams halt the flow of rivers and stop sediment from moving freely.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• The news triggered a sell-off in the company’s domestic bonds, with several of them forced to halt trading after falling by more than 20%.
  — Laura He, CNN, 14 Aug. 2023
• The lack of structures set in place to support and incentivize the development of Black employees will continue to halt change.
  — Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 5 Dec. 2023
• Collectively, the companies that have halted Red Sea trade for the time being account for upwards of 40% of the vessel market share.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 4 Jan. 2024
• Experts said that some materials were better than others, and questioned whether any fenders constructed of timber would do much to halt a massive container ship.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
• City officials have been working for months to try to halt the landslide complex’s movement — fighting an uphill battle against water infiltration, which causes the shifting ground.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024

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halt

2 of 2 noun

• The car skidded to a halt.
• They put a halt to the rumors.
• The lights go out and the song comes to a screeching halt.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2023
• At the last second, the man screeched to a halt, peeled out of the parking lot and drove away.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
• But the coup threatened to bring the economy to a halt.
  — Yves Laurent Goma and Sam Mednick The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2023
• But the writers and actors strikes brought his plans to a halt.
  — Alexis P. Williams, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• As summer gives way to fall, the growth slows, then comes to a halt, and the velvet dies and dries.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 10 Jan. 2024
• Just then, a white jeep sped down the corner, screeching to a halt.
  — Andrew V. Papachristos, Scientific American, 9 June 2023
• Then, in the sixth minute of stoppage time, the referee brought play to a halt again for over a minute.
  — Ben Church, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
• With the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel, these talks have come to a halt.
  — Ghaith Al-Omari, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
• Traffic soon came to a halt before the northbound lanes of the highway gave way.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 11 June 2023
• As the work trickled to a halt this year, however, he was let go.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 May 2023
• But when my mother got ill, his creative life came to a halt.
  — Brian Frazer, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• But Wade Park ran into funding problems and ground to a halt.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• Now, aside from a small budget indie short, work has slowed to a halt, for him and his studio, A Place to Tape.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
• Yet few families or places can quit the car just like that; such a drastic move would bring life to a halt.
  — Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
• Life came to a halt during the pandemic, and so did Bowden’s travels as a DJ.
  — Felice León, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
• Yun said 8% mortgage rates would bring the housing market to a halt and may even sink asking prices.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2023
• The assault spilled onto 47th Street and Ocean View Boulevard and brought traffic to a halt, police said.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2023
• The chip crisis showed that even one missing part can bring entire assembly lines to a halt.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2023
• The stalemate, now in its second week, has thrown the House into chaos, grinding all other business to a halt.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• And should a Republican win the presidency in 2024, the process would likely screech to a halt.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• If that were to occur, any government work that is not deemed essential would come to a halt.
  — Catherine Herridge, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2023
• Three of them approached three excavators and, one by one, locked themselves to the machines, bringing the day’s work to a halt.
  — Katie Myers, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2024
• The vote against the landfill project marked the issue’s return to Jefferson City after a dispute over the project ground the state Senate to a halt last year.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
• De Niro Con is just the latest event to be postponed amid the double strike that has largely brought film and TV production to a halt.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
• His immediate plans, now that his and Zendaya's style serves are coming to a brief halt?
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2024
• That means, in any particular section of the spacecraft, a failure of a single part could bring the mission to a halt.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
• Revenue crashed during the pandemic, when travel and car-pooling ground to a halt.
  — Mark Bergen, Fortune Europe, 3 Apr. 2024
• At red, Silverman’s eating disorder brings her life to a halt.
  — Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024

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