How to Use stop in a Sentence

stop

1 of 3 verb

• The bus stopped at the corner.
• He stopped to watch the sun set.
• She stopped the car and turned back.
• He stopped to pick up a penny.
• The traffic light turned red, so she had to stop.
• The car was going so fast that it couldn't stop in time.
• They stopped us at the border to check our passports.
• He was stopped by the police for speeding.
• Stop that man! He stole my wallet.
• She was walking toward me, and then she suddenly stopped.
• Most of the birds stopped chirping and singing when the sunlight dimmed.
  — Trilce Estrada Olvera, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
• In the video, Stanley says he’s sometimes asked when the band will stop.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
• The wood base has a rustic feel and the plastic lid will stop any dust or pests.
  — Kat Romero, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
• The war in Ukraine has lasted for 18 months, with no signs of stopping.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
• Even a tornado couldn’t stop the crew from pulling off the recreation of the venue.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 16 Aug. 2023
• The younger man, driving a Ford Focus, didn’t stop after the crash and sped away.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 22 July 2023
• Police said the driver of the truck did stop to try to help, police said, per KSAT.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
• But once the case settled, the special treatment stopped.
  — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
• But the chain of contamination doesn’t stop with the birds.
  — Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• Some riders stop at the lookout point halfway up for the views of the city and don’t continue.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• But do artists have the legal right to force politicians to stop using their greatest hits?
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
• Both blind and sighted people inferred movement from the start and stop of sounds.
  — Ione Fine, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2023
• Startled, the rapper jumped back slightly as the music stopped.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• The study's results made Zhivagui stop her own gel manicures.
  — CBS News, 13 Feb. 2023
• Half-way down, however, the car stops, its rear end poking above the water.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
• Per the docs, both the victim's wife and another passenger yelled at Lopez to stop.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
• Even a slowdown in home price growth at the end of last year could not stop the steady rise of land values across San Diego County.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• The fact that it was faked didn't stop it from being posted across the internet and rising to the top of Google search results.
  — Ben Goggin, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• As Sheppard recalled in her diary, the troupe left the hotel with the mob still in tow and walked to the railroad stop, where the choir began to sing a hymn.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• After this year, her school will stop after fifth grade, so Meek and many of her classmates will move to Broad Ripple for eighth grade.
  — Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2024

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stop

2 of 3 noun

• I need to make a stop at the grocery store on the way home.
• Our first stop has to be the gas station.
• Slow down as you approach the stop.
• I'm getting off at the next stop.
• The next stop is Main Street and Tower Square.
• His first stop will be Washington, D.C.
• But Michigan got a stop on the next play and forced a punt.
  — Nick Baumgardner and Mark Snyder, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2023
• The last stop of the day is the large plot of land where the drug dealer’s house once stood.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• Then, Swift heads to Singapore for the next stop of the tour on March 2.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
• To put a stop to the lies, the families filed defamation suits.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
• Then the red-hot metal cylinders are placed on a slide to their next stop.
  — Rebecca Lieberman, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Potomac Yard is on two lines and the other four are more than a few stops away.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• At the moment there’s not much on the 40-minute walk from the nearest train stop to the stadium.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Kendall Jenner pulled out all the stops this Halloween!
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
• On that sixth day, he was found in a room down a corridor at a Metro stop.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• And she's left a stylish impression at every stop along the way.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 28 Jan. 2023
• The car came to a stop and then moved slowly to the curb, as it was programmed to do, dragging the woman with it.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2023
• Our next stop was the Monastery of Simonopetra, a little farther down the coast.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
• To Rosenow, the traffic stop looked like racial profiling.
  — Melissa Sanchez and Maryam Jameel, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2023
• Indya Brown logs where to eat, drink, and see great clothes on the second stop of the fashion month world tour.
  — Essence, 22 Feb. 2024
• That wasn’t Ratajkowski's final stop—or ’fit—for the night.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2024
• Our last stop brings us a Ferris wheel designed by Basquiat.
  — Ryan Fish, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2023
• Last stop: Newfoundland, with the eclipse ending in the North Atlantic.
  — Marcia Dunn, Twin Cities, 7 Apr. 2024
• But the Red Wolves could not take advantage of the stop, going three and out on the next possession.
  — Mike Harley, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2023
• Michalek parked at a Jamba Juice and walked toward a trolley stop.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
• Justice is never having to fight for your life at a traffic stop in the first place.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2023
• This year, though, bills are nearing their final stops.
  — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
• Of course, the next stop was the sheep’s pasture, where guests could meet the wool-making masters behind the collection.
  — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2023
• For decades, street vending has been a first stop for the city’s newest immigrants.
  — Ana Ley Juan Arredondo, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Cons This vacuum seal storage bag doesn’t have a stop line on the bag, which can be tricky to eyeball.
  — Lindsay Tigar, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023

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stop

3 of 3 adjective

• For Lyons, the return brought more upheaval to a year of non-stop change.
  — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2021
• The fun part is when the Heat are draining non-stop 3-pointers.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2022
• The Super Bowl is known for its non-stop barrage of beer ads.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2023
• The years of recording and non-stop touring started to catch up with them.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 2 June 2022
• Maxey makes up for his lack of height with strength and a non-stop motor.
  — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• Kisha said there has been non-stop work for the family since their arrival.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 1 Mar. 2021
• Broscious is one of the top linemen in the country with a non-stop work ethic who picked it up a few more notches since that loss.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2021
• Here, Vogue Runway breaks down the six brands that caught our attention after a month of non-stop menswear.
  — Vogue, 30 June 2021
• With a new year has come a seemingly non-stop deluge of base options.
  — Alaina Demopoulos, Allure, 9 Mar. 2022
• If flying non-stop matters, use a few more points to avoid a connection.
  — Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2021
• That's not to mention the non-stop revelry of Carnaval, which is its own bucket list item.
  — Karen I. Chen, Travel + Leisure, 18 Feb. 2023
• Existing force structure is old and worn hard after twenty years of non-stop combat—and a decade longer in the case of the Air Force.
  — Dave Deptula, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• Still, opt for non-stop routes or flights with shorter layover times to avoid spending time in airports.
  — Heather Greenwood Davis, National Geographic, 23 Nov. 2020
• And there was life on those planets, whirling, non-stop plans and parties and friends coming and going, and ideas and dreams and the phone ringing and doors slamming.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• For now, the Pioneer Woman has a message for her kids while their parents enjoy some time away from the non-stop work of life on the farm.
  — Jd Knapp, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2021
• That gave him a short runup to his first fall camp as a sophomore, which Elliott surmounted with a non-stop motor.
  — Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2021
• With no chance for the rain to dry up between now and then, the non-stop precipitation could lead to widespread flooding.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 17 May 2021
• With a non-stop onslaught of severe storms, wildfires and hurricanes, 2020 has been a calamitous year for weather in the US.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2020
• Being in non-stop attack mode helped Johnson secure a spot in the Spurs’ starting lineup.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Feb. 2021
• But the route back to federal headquarters is a non-stop barrage of bullets, blasts, and bodies.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• Health care workers were exhausted, not just from the non-stop work, but from seeing the rising daily death count, Marsh said.
  — Brayden Garcia, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2021
• Hell, as the Dolphins lived it, was also schemed with dink-and-dunk passes, non-stop and ineffective, until the day is lost.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2021
• One of the best defensive ends in the country, Somerville is a tough, physical, athletic rush end who has a non-stop motor.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2020
• According to the auction house, Taylor, tired of packing and repacking all of her clothes for their non-stop travel, told Anne to take her pick of her wardrobe.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 25 Nov. 2022
• Many teens are acutely aware of the current state of our planet, thanks to what can seem like non-stop news and social media coverage.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 14 Dec. 2022
• But his non-stop motor, and high football character gives Collins a chance to become a Day 1 starter, one who should be able to anchor a defense once the speed of the game slows down for him.
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Apr. 2021
• The rechargeable battery promises up to six hours of non-stop karaoke (or auditory torture).
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2022
• Available deals include a non-stop trip from Houston to New Orleans beginning at $39 one way.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 24 June 2020
• Riders Ben and Ida share their experience on one of their recent multi-stop rides.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2021
• Together, the recommendations serve as guideposts for travelers to plot out visits (or even connect a few on multi-stop itineraries through the state).
  — Eve Batey, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024