bring/put a stop to

idiom

: to bring (something) to a state in which no further activity happens : to end (something)

Negotiations brought a stop to the conflict.

We need to put a stop to these practices.

She wanted to put a stop to the rumors.

Examples of bring/put a stop to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Banning the activity of Hamas and Samidoun, and dissolving Samidoun Deutschland, will put a stop to such demonstrations of hate in Germany. —Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 26 May 2024

Council members did put a stop to some of the reductions proposed by Bass. —David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024

Accepting the funds likely would put a stop to current or future litigation, but impacted swimmers would have the option to turn down the funds, Baldwin said. —Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2024

Allowing these protests at college campuses is not about free speech—and there should be no question as to whether to put a stop to them. —Gil Mandelzis, Fortune, 4 May 2024

The big question is: Is enough of this influence being used to put a stop to this escalation? —Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024

Miller put a stop to it and has instead placed a single bet on Amazon Web Services. —John Kell, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024

Any truly successful effort to put a stop to the threat from Hamas—which, in turn, would curb Iran’s ability to inflict violence on Israel—will require mitigating the devastating fallout for Palestinian civilians. —Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2024

To put a stop to the lies, the families filed defamation suits. —Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024