How to Use stopover in a Sentence

stopover

noun
  • The city is a favorite stopover for tourists.
  • I've been to Belgium—if you count a stopover in Brussels on my way to Istanbul.
  • Lees not sold him on the idea of one more stopover, in Westwood.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Browse the airline's stopover offers page to see the full list.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2024
  • This won’t be a long-term winter storm, more of a stopover.
    oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2023
  • However, Dubai is a great stopover on the way to Africa or the far East.
    Kara Ladd, Marie Claire, 4 May 2018
  • Using the stopover option would have saved me about $90 on the same flights.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Biden will then make a brief and historic stopover in Papua New Guinea.
    Aamer Madhani, ajc, 14 May 2023
  • The third way visitors get to Cozumel is via a cruise stopover.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Just two hours from Paris by train, Lyon makes an easy one- or two-night stopover.
    Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Ticket prices start at $199 one-way, with a stopover in Wow's home base in Iceland.
    Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 May 2018
  • The countries are often used by Uyghurs as stopovers on the way to the Xinjiang region of China.
    Mike Murphy, Quartz, 6 Sep. 2019
  • There was a lot to unwrap after the finale of a three-game stopover between road trips.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2019
  • Delta Air Lines doesn’t have a formal stopover program.
    Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 8 June 2022
  • The route shaves off around three hours of travel time from previous stopover routes.
    Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The flight was scheduled to continue to Spain after a U.K. stopover.
    Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Mule deer in Wyoming spend 95% of their time at stopover areas, according to the report.
    Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Saab, 51, was arrested last year during a stopover in Cape Verde en route to Iran.
    Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Along the way, make a stopover at the Forks, the confluence of the Kennebec and Dead Rivers that’s famed for its whitewater rafting.
    Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 18 June 2020
  • Then again, after a rough road trip, any win in a brief stopover at Toyota Center would do.
    Jonathan Feigen, Houston Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Many make stopovers at the Ebro Delta’s diverse aquatic ecosystems.
    Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
  • When the family arrived in Germany for a stopover, Joshua Mast and his wife greeted them at the air force base.
    Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The snow is always gone from the fields, providing some residual grain to pick, but the spring stopover in Delta is brief for these birds.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2018
  • Lady Spencer, 30, posted a series of pics from a stopover in the hillside town of Positano on the Amalfi coast.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2021
  • The joys of domesticity are a far cry from Miller’s last stopover in Portland as a 19-year-old.
    oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The salt flats, with their prevalence of food, are one of the most important stopover points for these birds in the entire Caribbean.
    Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The preserve is also a stopover site for the 121 species of migratory birds that have been spotted to date.
    Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2024
  • The apartment was likely a stopover before they were moved elsewhere.
    Bassem Mroue, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2018
  • In the near future, passengers will be able to fly low-cost from Milan to Manila with a stopover in New Delhi, for example.
    Antonio Dini, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2024
  • United could have canceled all of the tickets on your reservation, which might have left you stranded during your stopovers in Rome or Frankfurt, Germany.
    Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2024

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