stop-off

Definitions

Examples

• But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.

• Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

• A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

• That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.

• Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.

• A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

• "But I can't stop to argue about it now;" and, saying this, he turned into a side path, and disappeared in the wood.

• At twelve, or fifteen, or sixteen, or twenty it was decided that they should stop learning.

• He had seen the act committed, he felt sure but had made no effort whatever to stop the thief.

• The Kangaroo can hop and hop and hop; Somehow he never seems to want to stop.