How to Use standstill in a Sentence

standstill

noun

• The accident brought traffic to a standstill.
• When the rest of the world came to a standstill, our sector stayed in the field.
  — Bob Clark, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• Over the last couple of months, the race has been at a standstill.
  — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2023
• When the line came to a standstill, people stepped out to stretch their legs.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
• But the front lines in the southeast are nearly at a standstill.
  — Laris Karklis, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
• The sizable walkout had left the school at a near standstill.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2022
• Yet the talks came to a standstill in March over a number of sticking points.
  — Tamara Qiblawi and Zeena Saifi, CNN, 15 Aug. 2022
• The news comes as the rest of the French travel industry sees a standstill.
  — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 July 2024
• A bad year for markets has led the IPO market to come to a standstill.
  — Akane Otani, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
• The economy all but came to a standstill when covid took hold in March 2020.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023
• If it isn’t resolved quickly, the House will come to a standstill.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2023
• From there, the scoring came to a standstill until the Blue Devils took over in the fifth.
  — Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2024
• But the project came to a standstill in September 2023.
  — Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2024
• The last round of talks between the US and Iran resulted in a standstill.
  — Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 17 July 2022
• By the time Trump lands, the fair has virtually come to a standstill.
  — Time, 16 Aug. 2023
• Hezbollah and Israel fought to a standstill in a 2006 war.
  — Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
• While Covid brought that project to a standstill, the pair decided to join forces to form Rivulet Films.
  — Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
• The streets are thronged with people, traffic at a standstill in many places.
  — ABC News, 27 Mar. 2022
• But the prospects appeared unlikely with the talks at a standstill.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2024
• In Homs — and across the country — life has come to a virtual standstill.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• The path we were forced to take out of the stadium narrowed so much that folks were at a standstill.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 9 June 2022
• The country has come to a standstill, with businesses and schools closed.
  — Time, 19 Sep. 2022
• Fighting in Kherson, in the south, and the Donbas region, in the east, has largely ground to a standstill.
  — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
• Sixty-five miles apart, the planes remained at a standstill.
  — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
• But if any one of the unions decides to strike, all 12 unions will honor it, bringing the system to a standstill.
  — Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2022
• But transit workers are on strike, and the city’s traffic is at a standstill.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 24 May 2024
• The twin spending fights have ground Congress to a standstill in recent weeks.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• Amtrak paid no bonuses again in 2020, as the virus brought travel to a near standstill.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• In the predawn dark of a rainy morning, traffic on southbound routes out of Beirut, along with roads leading to Baalbek and the Bekaa Valley, were already jammed to a standstill.
  — Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2024
• With Butler and the Heat at a standstill, his camp appears to be playing the media game to begin building leverage ahead of free agency next offseason.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024