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Use stop in a sentence

Sentences starting with stop

Stop a minute, you men; it is worth while, Sir, to tarry a moment. [10]
Stop the starboard wheel! [5]
Stop at the threshold! [6]
Stop that yaller one with the pictures on it--don't you fret--I'll stand all the expenses myself. [5]
Stop at the next inn, and call out for a glass of hot brandy and water. [12]
Stop it, or I'll cut the rope. [11]
Stop your silly giggling, for laughing before sunrise causes tears at evening. [10]
Stop there, you devil with the cart! [2]
Stop him!--living or dead, bring him back! [10]
Stop where you are! [5]

Sentences ending with stop

But where are you to stop? [9]
Her pious heart would run her little head against the wall if matters came to that and, like the noble Moorish steeds, she would drop dead in her tracks rather than stop. [10]
Her heart beat with tumult, and again seemed to stop. [9]
But the surest way to stop writing about Rome is to stop. [5]
Then I called twice to Doltaire to stop. [11]
When she came to 'Thornfield' she could not stop. [14]
If you have to think about one person, you should stop thinking about another; anyhow, you've got to make yourself stop. [11]
It never seems to stop. [9]
Swaying from side to side on his long, thin legs in his fluttering dressing gown, this lunatic was running impetuously, his gaze fixed on Rostopchin, shouting something in a hoarse voice and making signs to him to stop. [2]
They shortly came to one and had to stop. [5]

Short sentences using stop

But stop, here we are! [10]
Who will stop us? [9]
Do we stop there? [5]
Can not stop there. [5]
Do not stop there! [6]
Oh, don't stop there! [5]
Could Spain stop them? [9]
Nothing can stop them now. [11]
Why do you stop? [5]
She tried to stop. [10]

Sentences containing stop two or more times

Oh, stop, stop, while you are still temperate in your appreciation of your ancestors! [5]
I told him to stop being 16 at 40; told him to stop drooling about the sweet yet melancholy past, and take a pill. [5]
Dryfoos owns the magazine; he can stop it, or he can stop us, which amounts to the same thing, as far as we're concerned. [8]
Stop, stop! [2]

More example sentences with the word stop in them

I suppose, if you're determined to continue this life of--(she catches herself) I can't stop you. [9]
You can take your own time, stop when and where you choose--at the more stations the better. [4]
Let that be your model; and remember, on peril of your reputation as a prophet, not to put a stop before or after the nunquam. [6]
And now, my young friend, let-us shake hands and stop our discussion, which we will not make a quarrel. [6]
And as for you, my lad, you are my guest; you can't stop at any hotel in New York. [5]
Why did not you think of a railway-station, where the cars stop five minutes for refreshments? [6]
In the meantime, you stop walking the floor. [5]
I suggest that you stop those negotiations and put those people off two or three months. [5]
Now looky here; you stop that putting on frills. [5]
Well, now, when you stop and think, they're royal good ones. [5]
If, upon reflection, you Howellses find, you can stop over here on your way, I wish you would do it, and telegraph me. [5]
There was a yell at us, and a jingling of bells to stop the engines, a powwow of cussing, and whistling of steam--and as Jim went overboard on one side and I on the other, she come smashing straight through the raft. [5]
And if she wrote them, they might try to stop the marriage, or at least to delay it for some years. [9]
Every day I write (in my head) bitter magazine articles about it, but I have to stop with that. [5]
I said I would stop till I had gained it. [12]
A bad omen would stop proceedings and send the men home. [5]
I'm sure it won't stop raining for hours. [9]
We can't be with you always; we are passing away, and then--well, everything will have to stop, I reckon. [5]
All of them, with the questionable exception of the Springfield tree above referred to, stop, so far as my experience goes, at about twenty-two or twenty-three feet of girth and a hundred and twenty of spread. [6]
He cannot stop with merely thinking a thing is so and so; he must know it; for this is eminently one of the 'exact' sciences. [5]
He would stop with an exclamation and stand gazing, self-forgetful, for incredible periods, and she would watch him, filled with a curious sense of the limitations of an appreciation she had thought complete. [9]
I timed him with a stop watch, and he made 1,244 revolutions in 24 minutes and 46 seconds. [5]
I have sometimes wished I knew the exact site of Thebes, so that I could rise in the audience, and stop that question, at any rate. [4]
If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him. [7]
There is something,--I will not stop now to try and define it,--but there is something by which we recognize an American among the English before he speaks and betrays his origin. [6]
If any gentleman will have the kindness to stop this run-away comparison, I shall be much obliged to him. [6]
Once in a while a detachment of the Home Guards, commanded by a lieutenant; would march swiftly into a street and stop before a house, whose occupants would run to the rear, only to encounter another detachment in the alley. [9]
The Scythian guards, which at last put a stop to the frantic rage of the deluded populace, arrived too late to prevent the destruction of the house, but they saved Philotas and the other youths from the fists and stones of the rabble. [10]
I took out when the pistols went off, and I didn't stop for three mile. [5]
Any such effort, when a person is so enfeebled, may stop the heart in a moment; and if it stops, it will never move again. [6]
Perhaps he guessed what was going on in me, for he said in a low, cultured voice: "The wheels will stop too long some time, and there will be no rebound;" --referring to the irregular action of his heart. [11]
The prisoners' guards were glad to stop, they were in no hurry. [10]
At each place we stop there are always three, four, or more dug-outs arriving, bringing information of stock in other places in need. [5]
At every hotel we stop at we always have to send out for soap, at the last moment, when we are grooming ourselves for dinner, and they put it in the bill along with the candles and other nonsense. [5]
What these were we need not stop to mention,--only remarking that there were dresses of various patterns, which might afford an agreeable series of changes, and in certain contingencies prove eminently useful. [6]
We'll stop as we go 'long. [9]
And I stood watching their receding figures as they walked out into the street and hailed the huge electric car that came to a stop beyond them. [9]
Once, when there was trouble with the Chipp'ways, he went alone to their camp, and say he will fight their strongest man, to stop the trouble. [11]
But presently there was loud murmuring and shuffling of feet outside again, and Rosalie left the room hurriedly and went below to stop it. [11]
The flame now was in her eyes, and she put out both her hands to stop him as he turned to go; but his face was passionless. [11]
You won't be wanting to stop in the Legislature, Mr. Crewe, and we remember our friends in Newcastle. [9]
I used to wake from the dream for a moment, and I tried to stop, but something in my blood drove me on--inevitably. [11]
We got up very much jaded, at dawn, and stepped out at a way station; and, while we were taking a cup of coffee, that Englishman ranged up alongside, and somebody said to him: "So you didn't stop off, after all? [5]
May stop where Venice did, though, for aught we know.--The order of its development is just this:--Wealth; architecture; upholstery; painting; sculpture. [6]
There are expressions used in it which might well put a stop to all scientific discussions, were they to form the current coin in our exchange of opinions. [3]
There is no use in the pain, that I know of; if he can stop it, let him. [6]
When I grow up, they'll have to stop it. [9]
No, I can't understand why the firebug didn't let us get clean away; for if the Saadat stays here, he'll be where he can stop the underground mining. [11]
If we ever tried to reason with him, he would threaten to stop his paper, and, of course, that meant bankruptcy and destruction. [5]
If it's a tragedy"--she drew herself up with a little shudder, for she was thinking of that figure dropping from Elise's window--"you cannot stop it. [11]
David had been too late to stop it. [11]
Snow mountains are too dear at the price .... For several years I have been intending to stop writing for print as soon as I could afford it. [5]
She would go to-night secretly and nail the cross again on the church door, and so stop the chatter of evil tongues. [11]
Ole missis, she tole me I got to go an' git dis water an' not stop foolin' roun' wid anybody. [5]
If you stop to write you will get nothing. [5]
You never stop to think what you are about! [5]
I didn't stop to think about anything, I just tilted over backwards and landed on the floor, and staid there. [5]
They're signalling us to stop, and they're bearing down. [11]
So I tried to stop you, Buck--" Life was going fast, and speech failed him; but he opened his eyes again and whispered, "I didn't want to die, Buck. [11]
But all efforts to stop the growth of the city were vain. [4]
If the order to stop the galley came much after daybreak, she would certainly be by that time well under way, and their father and Philip might have succumbed to the hard rowing before a swift trireme could overtake and release them. [10]
What good now to stop the fifes and drums-follow me? [11]
It was necessary to stop that, and it is now stopped. [5]
But--now I'm going to stop taking boarders. [6]
I persuaded him to stop over at Niagara, which he had never seen. [6]
That's the way to stop off a young one from eatin' up all the 'lection dinner. [6]
You have got to stop me by force. [5]
I want you to stop it. [8]
The king wanted to stop his wages; he even wanted to banish him, but I interfered. [5]
People may try to stop him, and they may tear down what he does, but he does at last what he starts to do, and no one can prevent him--not any one. [11]
I should like to stop here a week; wouldn't you? [4]
The doctor tried to stop her. [2]
Now's the time to stop 'em. [9]
How'm I going to stop 'em when I want to? [9]
So we had to stop at last and slump down in the snow where we were. [5]
Later he decided to stop asking for the floor, and to confer it upon himself. [5]
It is intended to stop all debate, like the previous question in the General Court. [6]
I can't stop to spell the words for you, but you can take the letter presently and comfort your eyes with it. [5]
I have learned to smoke in a week, and the trouble is already over with me; if you would try, you could learn too, and then you would stop spoiling my comfort with your everlasting complaints. [5]
He didn't stop to reason than upon the probable consequences of his act in seeking her. [9]
I cannot stop to read it, but I will give it to the reporters. [7]
But don't stop to quarrel, now--maybe we are not too late yet. [5]
So I'm going to marry--and stop. [11]
I should like to know, if taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, and making exceptions to it, where will it stop? [7]
He stepped quickly to her, grasped both her hands in his, and said, "Laura, stop! [5]
Susan went straight to her room, dried her tears so as to write in a fair hand, but had to stop every few lines and take a turn at the "dust-layers," as Mrs. Clymer Ketchum's friend used to call the fountains of sensibility. [6]
I am sorry to hear that it has not proved effectual in putting a stop to the abuse of a deserving class of men. [6]
We were impatient to get away, now, and the rest of our two-hour stop rather dragged. [5]
We shall have to flee, or stop our ears with wax, like the sailors of Ulysses. [4]
With nothing else to do, I had to stop and think--and did. [5]
I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. [5]
I didn't stop to count, anyhow--I shinned down the tree and shot for home. [5]
They cannot stop to cherish morbidness, to feed upon their sorrow; they must care for themselves and labour for others. [11]
He kindly tried to cheer her, and to speak words of comfort; but she pushed him away, tore herself from him, and before he could stop her, she had fled out of the room. [10]
You must stop to breakfast, and see the excitement. [5]
It seems unaccountable to a superficial observer that the thousands of people who are dissatisfied with their climate do not seek a more congenial one--or stop grumbling. [4]
You now belong to a party that I am opposed to, but that doesn't stop me offering you support. [11]
The burros trotted tirelessly; the dogs, once more free, pattered tirelessly; and Lassiter led on with never a stop, and at every open place he looked back. [13]
There was no time to turn the bridge back, and there was no time for Shangois to stop the headlong pace of the mare. [11]
I didn't have time to stop. [13]

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