How to Use come to a stop in a Sentence

come to a stop

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  • If the driver doesn’t respond, the system will trigger the car to slowly come to a stop.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The question for the USPS is on what terms this will come to a stop.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Meanwhile, the pickup truck rolled across the freeway to the right shoulder and appeared to come to a stop.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • An entire nation has almost come to a stop today, uh, in the wake of the horrible news.
    Bob Schieffer, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2017
  • New granting rounds have been suspended and the review process for existing ones has come to a stop.
    Martin Enserink, Science | AAAS, 25 Feb. 2021
  • An accident forces Vivien and Roy to come to a stop and try to reclaim their lives one minute at a time to start living in the present.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
  • When the car did come to a stop, the officer approached the vehicle and smelled inside the odor of marijuana.
    cleveland, 29 July 2021
  • Another police vehicle deployed spike strips, which caused the Lexus to come to a stop after driving over a curb.
    Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The driver, who appeared to be the only occupant, began to come to a stop but then fled north on Brush Road at a high rate of speed.
    cleveland, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The toe pick is used to dig into the ice and generate the friction a skater needs to launch into a jump or come to a stop for those dramatic finishing sequences.
    Allison Goldstein, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Depending upon the circumstance, the driver might come to a stop or the driver might assert their claim to the roadway and ostensibly dare the pedestrian to try and disrupt their path.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • State Police say the lieutenant, who was on-duty, had pulled over in his unmarked cruiser and turned on his blue lights to protect the driver of the tractor-trailer that had come to a stop with a smoking tire.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2021
  • After attempting to steady the vehicle, police said the tractor-trailer driver then jackknifed across all lanes of I-675 northbound, causing traffic to come to a stop.
    Mary Helene Hall, ajc, 8 July 2022
  • Here's why Westmoreland was found a short time later, according to the Department of Justice statement, inside the truck, which had come to a stop on the side of the road inside park boundaries.
    Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Police deployed spike strips that took out three of the trucks’ tires, but the vehicle didn’t come to a stop until officer’s determined it was equipped with the in-vehicle security system OnStar, police said.
    Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2022

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