Use standstill in a sentence
Sentences ending with standstill
- If one whom we recognized and adored as a god should go abroad in our streets, and the day it was to happen were known, all traffic would be blocked and business would come to a standstill. [5]
- They picked her up and flung her around like nothing and landed her gently on the solid, smooth bottom of sand--so gently, indeed, that we barely felt her touch it, barely felt her quiver when she came to a standstill. [5]
- They argued and tried to keep him out, but he wouldn't listen, and the whole show come to a standstill. [5]
- By this time the whole church was red-faced and suffocating with suppressed laughter, and the sermon had come to a dead standstill. [5]
- The Grand Duke of Galilee, minister of war, complained that all the sixteen grown men in the empire had been given great offices, and consequently would not consent to serve in the ranks; wherefore his standing army was at a standstill. [5]
- The financial stringency of 1893 had brought everything to a standstill. [5]
- The Russians retreated eighty miles--to beyond Moscow--and the French reached Moscow and there came to a standstill. [2]
- But we had an accident, now, and it fetched all the plans to a standstill. [5]
More example sentences with the word standstill in them
- Mena lashed his whip, the horses started forward and rushed with frantic plunges towards the fugitives, who however could not be brought to a standstill, or rallied by the king's voice--the enemy were close upon them, cutting them down. [10]
- As her horses were at a standstill she saw a wagon approaching. [11]
- It made me tug and pant and perspire; and still, labor as I might, the machine came almost to a standstill every little while. [5]
- It brought him to a melancholy standstill, disturbed at last by Gongi touching him on the arm and pointing towards the post-office. [11]
- In the mean time the city government had been at a standstill, because with out Luigi there was a tie in the board of aldermen, whereas with him the liquor interest--the richest in the political field--would have one majority. [5]
- As he entered the place he was suddenly brought to a standstill, for not two dozen yards away at a counter was Jasmine Byng. [11]
- Tom slammed on the back-action, and as we slowed to a standstill a man's face as big as our house at home looked in over the gunnel, same as a house looks out of its windows, and I laid down and died. [5]
- Once at a standstill they all seemed to understand that they did not yet know where they were going, and that much that was painful and difficult awaited them on this journey. [2]
- Thus they soon reached the square, but there they were brought to a standstill in the crush. [10]
- I would start one way, Luigi would start another, at the same moment --the result would be a standstill, wouldn't it? [5]
- Professedly Celia was his critic, but really she was the necessary appreciator, for probably most writers would come to a standstill if there was no sympathetic soul to whom they could communicate, while they were fresh, the teeming fancies of their brains. [4]
- Her breath came fast and her hands trembled, but she was already on her way to the secret door through which she should flee from this place of horror, when she came to a standstill, shaking her head gently. [10]
- I have got everything at a dead standstill, and that is where it ought to be, and that is where it must remain; to follow any other policy would be to make the book worse than it already is. [5]
- It was an embarrassing situation for the moment--merely, of course, because matters had taken such a sudden and unexpected turn that these unpractised minds were not prepared for it, and had come to a standstill, like a stopped clock, under the shock. [5]
- Then my father died, leaving his family in exceedingly straitened circumstances; wherefore my book-education came to a standstill forever, and I became a printer's apprentice, on board and clothes, and when the clothes failed I got a hymn-book in place of them. [5]
- Business came to a standstill, plantations lay idle, and gentry and farmers flocked to Annapolis, and held meetings and made resolutions anew. [9]
- Imagination came to a standstill, for what could it add to these wonders? [10]
- Operations were at a standstill, and the sinews of war relaxed. [9]
- I was at a standstill for 3 days and a half, but during the last 24 hours I have gained nearly an ounce, avoirdupois. [5]
- Our brake was a good piece of machinery; it could bring the car to a standstill on a slope as steep as a house-roof. [5]
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