How to Use work stoppage in a Sentence

work stoppage

noun

• The actors work stoppage passed the three-month mark on Oct. 14.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 Oct. 2023
• The strikes come just two years after the union engaged in work stoppages at the ports.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 11 July 2024
• The union has not endured a work stoppage since it was locked out by the studios in 1988.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 3 July 2024
• In the year since forming the union, Pineapple Street staffers have yet to stage any kind of work stoppage.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
• Adjustments have been put in place to menus in case of a work stoppage.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2023
• Even the threat of a work stoppage could tangle the nation’s supply chains.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Both sides do agree on one thing: No one is planning for a work stoppage.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
• The club’s first season in Texas in 1972 was also delayed a week by a work stoppage.
  — Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
• So did shortstop Corey Seager, who left the Dodgers to sign a 10-year deal with the Rangers two days before the work stoppage.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• When the 99-day work stoppage in Major League Baseball ended on March 10, the sport surged back to life.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• In the midst of the biggest wave of work stoppages since the 1970s, Riley notes, labor unions and strikes are almost nowhere to be seen on screen.
  — Emma Silvers, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2023
• Yet the idea persists that the UAW’s contract stance is the governing factor in the effect of a work stoppage.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Their 42-day work stoppage began and ended all within the span of the much longer writers strike.
  — Andrew Dalton, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2023
• The deal ends the biggest work stoppage of its kind in nearly half a century.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
• Opening day was to have been March 31 but has been wiped out by baseball’s ninth work stoppage.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2022
• After just a few days, a work stoppage at ports along the East Coast could lead to shortages of goods from overseas.
  — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 15 Nov. 2024
• The work stoppage was a new blow to Haiti’s anemic economy.
  — Time, 20 Oct. 2021
• In both cases, the vote is just the first step on a path that rarely if ever ends in an actual work stoppage.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
• The six-week work stoppage cost GM $3.6 billion and had broad impact across the industry.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, The Courier-Journal, 23 Aug. 2023
• There is so much work remaining and not enough fear of the far-reaching impact of a work stoppage.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• The Braves are coming out of the work stoppage with more uncertainty than most.
  — Jake Seiner, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2022
• The United Auto Workers strike has the potential to become one of the largest work stoppages in the past three decades.
  — Joe Murphy, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2023
• In the meantime, a prolonged work stoppage among the actors could delay the return to work for writers.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2023
• In the meantime, a prolonged work stoppage among the actors could delay the return to work for some writers.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
• The one-day strike was the first newsroom work stoppage in the newspaper's 142-year history.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
• Many teams and free agents, assuming a lockout was coming, rushed to complete deals in the days ahead of the work stoppage.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2021
• The strike by the writers, which began in May, has already run longer than the union’s previous work stoppage in 2007.
  — Christopher Palmeri, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
• Baseball is now on the precipice of losing regular season games to a work stoppage for the first time since 1995.
  — oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2022
• Heaney, who signed as a free agent just before the work stoppage began, likely will be built up to the five-inning mark.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2022
• As has been the case in previous supply chain work stoppages, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce urged the federal government to intervene in a Friday letter.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025