Stopping is an English word with synonyms like fillet or fastener. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Stopping meaning
present participle and gerund of stop
Using Stopping
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of stop
- Useful related words include: fillet, fastener, fastening, holdfast.
- In the example corpus, stopping often appears in combinations such as: stopping the, and stopping, of stopping.
Context around Stopping
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stopping
- In this selection, "stopping" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, include, projects, liverpool, judging, distances and coal stand out and add context to how "stopping" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a no stopping zone and after stopping a 43. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stopping" sits close to words such as nasdaq, graduated and suspension, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stopping
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
America Ferrera gives a monologue that is heart stopping. (9 words)
All that frenzy as the King and Queen were stopping for tea. (12 words)
And some people aren’t happy about it, but that won’t be stopping her. (15 words)
William La Palombara faced a hearing at Wollongong Local Court on Wednesday where he was found not guilty of assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, behaving in an offensive manner, and stopping in a no stopping zone. (36 words)
After stopping a 43-year old Neptune Twp man for a motor vehicle violation, officers found the man was unlicensed (never having had a license),his driving privileges were also suspended and the vehicle was uninsured. (36 words)
Alisson was in inspired form between the sticks for Liverpool, stopping Maddison finding the top left-hand corner from 20 yards in the 49th minute before tipping over Son's volleyed snapshot two minutes later. (35 words)
Allen: So I think the big question is why isn’t the Biden administration stopping this and how did they let it get this bad? (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
That action would include stopping coal and gas projects, stopping the misuse of precious water and stopping the burning of coal to reduce the extreme atmospheric changes we are experiencing.
By stopping Russia, and degrading its forces, Ukraine is protecting all of Eastern Europe, and by stopping this invasion, China will be dissuaded from attacking Taiwan.
Stopping men in thongs from performing for kids and stopping children from permanently altering their growing bodies is based on science and common sense.
William La Palombara faced a hearing at Wollongong Local Court on Wednesday where he was found not guilty of assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, behaving in an offensive manner, and stopping in a no stopping zone.
As for Knoll, her reputation for tough hockey comes less from stopping steaming shots and more from stopping opposing skaters in their tracks.
The end of racism is stopping judging people by the color of their skin, not stopping judging people of certain races or ethnic groups entirely.
In our tests of both Model 3 samples, the stopping distances were much longer than the stopping distances we recorded on other Teslas and other cars in this class.
After an easy hour’s drive the Land Rover was gliding through the forest and stopping at the stately Portland Manor, where the historical estate encompasses countless hectares of pristine Knysna forest.
After just 20 minutes of stopping smoking pulse rates will begin to return to normal and after eight hours oxygen levels begin to recover and the harmful carbon monoxide in the body has halved.
After stopping a 43-year old Neptune Twp man for a motor vehicle violation, officers found the man was unlicensed (never having had a license),his driving privileges were also suspended and the vehicle was uninsured.
After turning their car around, officers saw him run up the stairs of an abandoned apartment building before stopping him and finding that he had a car radio, two screwdrivers and a wallet.
A large group of iron workers work on the deck where dozens of coaches will soon be stopping.
Alisson was in inspired form between the sticks for Liverpool, stopping Maddison finding the top left-hand corner from 20 yards in the 49th minute before tipping over Son's volleyed snapshot two minutes later.
Allen: So I think the big question is why isn’t the Biden administration stopping this and how did they let it get this bad?
All that frenzy as the King and Queen were stopping for tea.
Along with stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, the establishment of full diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia is the top foreign-policy priority for the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
America Ferrera gives a monologue that is heart stopping.
And 73 per cent of teenagers believed more needed to be done by technology firms in stopping pornography being viewed accidently online.
And after that it was like two freight trains, there was no stopping them,” interim captain David Nainkin said.
And some people aren’t happy about it, but that won’t be stopping her.
Common combinations with stopping
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- stopping the 25×
- and stopping 14×
- of stopping 12×
- after stopping 12×
- not stopping 10×
- stopping there 8×
- stopping in 7×
- no stopping 7×
- stopping at 7×
- by stopping 6×