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Sentences ending with stops

One of these young brains is like a bunch of India crackers; once touch fire to it and it is best to keep hands off until it has done popping,--if it ever stops. [6]
Life turns the winch, and fancy or accident pulls out the stops. [6]
Let's have a turn before the music stops. [9]
There the chain stops. [4]

Short sentences using stops

The more stops, the better. [6]
Harriet stops studying. [5]

More example sentences with the word stops in them

When it stops, you hear the worms boring in the powdery beams overhead. [6]
He climbed on, with frequent stops to watch the rim, and before he dreamed of gaining the bench he bumped his knees into it, and saw, in the dim gray light, his rifle and the rabbit. [13]
The electric car which he caught seemed to lag, the stops were interminable. [9]
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]
The interviewer seldom tries to tell one how a thing was said; he merely puts in the naked remark and stops there. [5]
It was a trail on which there could be no stops, and, therefore, if perilous, it was at least one that did not take long in the descent. [13]
The lift stops to reflect between floors. [5]
Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well. [3]
For a day the world stops to see it; the newspapers spread abroad a report of it, and the modest scholar feels that the eyes of mankind are fixed on him in expectation and desire. [4]
Nothing ever stops the way it was in this changeable world. [5]
At 90 degrees the oak stops short; to slant upward another degree would mark infirmity of purpose; to bend downwards, weakness of organization. [6]
When it stops, the man is dead. [5]
The poles of the great magnet that draws in all the iron tracks through the grooves of all the mountains must be near at hand, for here are crossings, and sudden stops, and screams of alarmed engines heard all around. [6]
My aunt in the country stops the supplies, and writes an affectionate note to say that she has made a new will, and left me out of it--staggerer, number two. [12]
If Flint stops that bill, I'll buy a newspaper and go to the people with the issue and throw his d-d monopoly into bankruptcy. [9]
William Murray Bradshaw struck for a railroad train going to the great seaport, at a station where it stops for wood and water. [6]
It stops a story right in the most interesting place. [5]
Then the whipper stops, looks at the lashes, feels them tender like, and out and down it comes again. [11]
A good many stops, but will get to the station by and by. [6]
When the heart stops beating, there's heart failure. [11]
The way he stops and talks to me when he passes the gate--" "That doesn't make him a good man," Hannah declared, and added: "If he wasn't a good man, Janet wouldn't be marrying him. [9]
He had been stopping in that house ten days; I almost know, now, that he stops long nowhere, the past six or eight months, but is restless and has to keep moving. [5]
Your humor is so very subtle, and elusive--(well, often it's just a vanishing breath of perfume which a body isn't certain he smelt till he stops and takes another smell) whereas you can smell other (Remainder obliterated. [5]
And so on, slowly, with long stops at many stations, to give opportunity, I suppose, for the honest passengers to take in supplies of beer and sausages, to Nuremberg. [4]
On the landing she stops to brush her eyes with her handkerchief. [9]
The train made several stops, and at each of them shoals of country people filled the aisles, and paused for a most familiar chat with the senatorial candidate. [9]
He is all right now, only he is a monomaniac, and when he gets on that old subject he never stops till he has eat up that whole car-load of people he talks about. [5]
He does not remember to have ever seen it before; he looks around to see which is not the way home, grabs his bundle and starts; he goes through the same adventures he had before; finally stops to rest, and a friend comes along. [5]
Gratitude stops your pretty little mouth, eh? [10]
For now the over-tense nerves are all unstraining themselves, and a buzz, like that which comes over one who stops after being long jolted upon an uneasy pavement, makes the whole frame alive with a luxurious languid sense of all its inmost fibres. [6]
But when the old clock on the stable was striking twelve, he opened his eyes wide, and when it had stopped, he said: 'It is always twelve by the clock that stops at noon. [11]
All are working night and day, and the 'Susie' hardly stops for more than an hour anywhere. [5]
She was far nearer weeping than laughing already, when a man's deep voice said behind her, in tones of commanding decision: "Make way there for the pumps; push aside whatever stops the way. [10]
Hilary Vane had named the presidents of conventions, and the committees, and by pulling out stops could get such resolutions as he wished--or as Mr. Flint wished. [9]
Hard trip, because it was one of those trains that gets tired every seven minutes and stops to rest three quarters of an hour. [5]
No; for it is reform by force and has no virtue in it; it merely stops that form of lying, it doesn't impair the disposition to lie, by a shade. [5]
She adds six inches to her skirt, she unplaits her dangling braids and balls her hair on top of her head, she stops sleeping with her little sister and has a room to herself, and becomes in many ways a thundering expense. [5]
He stops, removes his hat, as he should to such a tree, puts his mouth to the spout, and takes a long pull at the lively water. [4]
There was in him a musical organ with stops of varied power and expression, upon which I have no doubt he could have performed Scarlatti's celebrated cat's-fugue. [4]
A stentorian voice, hard as that of Rhadamanthus, exclaims,-- "Lady Vere de Vere's carriage stops the way! [6]
The "Right Worshipful" functionary whose equipage stops at my back gate, and whose services are indispensable to the health and comfort of my household, is a dignitary whom I must not offend. [6]
But that was for only a moment--though a moment is a notable something when it stops the heartbeat of twenty thousand people and makes them catch their breath. [5]
That, like everything else that is to come, stops beyond the closed gate; and there it halts, ready to stream down before our eyes in a variegated pageant. [4]
But some one else stops the way, and that is Mena. [10]
On a given day of the month a wagon stops at the door and takes up, not his trunks, for he does not indulge in any such extravagance, but the stout brown linen bags in which he packs the few conveniences he carries with him. [6]
Perhaps he himself couldn't explain why, when he is sent to the neighbor's after yeast, he stops to stone the frogs; he is not exactly cruel, but he wants to see if he can hit 'em. [4]
They hear a cannonblast, and a cannon-ball presently comes rolling into the wood and stops at their feet. [5]
I shall keep an eye on him, of course, for that is but right; but if he stops where he is and reforms, it shall never be said that I betrayed him. [5]
Mr. Froude here again stops at a half-truth. [4]
When I was about the middle I heard the clock begin to strike, so I stops and listens; the sound come faint over the water but clear--eleven. [5]
She added after a moment: "Add man to nature, and it stops sulking: which goes to show that fallen humanity is better than no company at all. [11]
Well, now,--said I,--suppose a good, clean, wholesome-looking countryman's cart stops opposite my door.--Do I want any huckleberries?--If I do not, there are those that do. [6]

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