How to Use grind to a halt in a Sentence

grind to a halt

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• And that’s when these airports grind to a halt.
  — ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026
• The car grinds to a halt just inches away from the child.
  — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
• As a result, life tends to grind to a halt when the sun goes down.
  — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2021
• This momentum could grind to a halt in the weeks and months to come.
  — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
• But this work, too, Sisk said, risks grinding to a halt.
  — Rachel Becker, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
• Experts warned that many cities could grind to a halt with blockades.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• When that slow-moving wind grinds to a halt, a heat dome occurs.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
• The script landed just as the industry ground to a halt.
  — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
• Four of their five losses have come in the clutch when their pace and ball movement grinds to a halt.
  — Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
• The end of Moore's Law doesn't mean your laptop is about to grind to a halt.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2023
• There was a real risk that key societal functions would grind to a halt.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 June 2023
• But by then everything had ground to a halt with the pandemic.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• Until then, box office revenues are all but grinding to a halt.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• Later that month, demand for trucking will also grind to a halt.
  — Kevin Ryan, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2025
• If that person becomes unavailable, the work can grind to a halt.
  — Adrian Stelmach, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
• The backlog has doubled over the past decade, and the system is grinding to a halt.
  — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
• Whenever the government grinds to a halt, the rich don’t feel the pain.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• But the downside is that if one part of the system fails, the industry can grind to a halt.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 19 July 2024
• Workers will lose jobs when infrastructure projects grind to a halt.
  — Ailia Zehra, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
• The pandemic might’ve made a mess of most things, but life didn’t totally grind to a halt.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 16 Apr. 2021
• By 1960, construction had ground to a halt.
  — Manuel Rueda, NPR, 20 Mar. 2026
• Without them, digital systems would grind to a halt.
  — Ian King, Bloomberg, 8 Mar. 2026
• Factories often grind to a halt if one robot fails or a layout changes.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
• If a sanitation strike hit New York, the city would grind to a halt.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
• The turmoil led to its operations grinding to a halt last year.
  — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• Without this revenue, the Russian war machine will grind to a halt.
  — Jason Fields, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
• This means that non-essential government services have ground to a halt.
  — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
• Over the past two weeks, a persistent onslaught of snow and ice made much of Charlotte grind to a halt.
  — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2026
• And the threat of those additional costs has caused shipments of solar panels to grind to a halt.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• With the fastest rate hikes since the 1980’s the property market has ground to a halt.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 17 July 2023