How to Use stop short in a Sentence

stop short

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• Note that the slots in the drawer faces stop short of the top edge.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2020
• Some drivers stop short, unsure of who should go first.
  — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2025
• To get nice, distinct marbling, stop short of over-swirling the batter.
  — Zoë François, WSJ, 10 July 2021
• Biden will say the deal deserves scrutiny but will stop short of saying it should be blocked.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
• But the measure would stop short of granting the workers full rights as employees.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2021
• Notably, the first two of six episodes stop short of moments teased in the Eras Tour trailer.
  — Bryan West, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
• However, some leaders stop short of getting curious enough to ask what might work.
  — Julia Korn, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
• These measures stop short of prohibiting all citizens from using the app.
  — Erin Mulvaney, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
• The idea is to approach maximal effort with the single-leg hold, but stop short of complete failure.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 21 May 2020
• In contrast, the current barrage of pro-Trump threats generally stop short of that red line.
  — Peter Eisler, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
• Those policies are nonbinding and don’t have the force of law, and even those limits stop short of what experts recommend.
  — NBC News, 28 Apr. 2022
• But the rivalry should stop short of one school making a move that financially ruins the other.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2023
• The judge could stop short of that, however, and issue a cap on detainees or mandate other ways to take the pressure off the island.
  — Max Rivlin-Nadler, Curbed, 8 Feb. 2022
• Four further states have restrictions on conversion therapy but stop short of an outright ban.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
• Musk could stop short of requiring identification but require that users use their real names.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
• Ekeler had intended to stop short of the goal line to let the clock run down and set the Chargers up with a short field goal to win on the game’s last play.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2021
• To cut corners, some installers will stop short, leaving a small gap of unprotected paint (and an unsightly line).
  — Michael Harley, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Whether the committee would recommend impeachment, or stop short of doing so, remained an open question.
  — David Montgomery, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• Each interaction was just vexing enough to prompt a response—but seemed to stop short of being aggressive or mean-spirited.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
• Lux’s improved numbers still stop short of spectacular, with only one home run and five RBIs so far.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• Fortunately, in Kim’s vision the algorithms self-correct and stop short of killing all people.
  — Khari Johnson, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
• Employers also might keep it simple and strongly encourage the vaccine, but stop short of requiring it.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 16 Dec. 2020
• Some studies show a possible link, other studies show no such link, but all existing studies stop short of showing cause-and-effect.
  — Sony Salzman, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2025
• But our imaginations tend to stop short, in part because the vast majority of us have never seen actual carnage.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
• The judge did, however, stop short of issuing a warrant for Jones' arrest, which the plaintiffs had requested.
  — Sonia Moghe, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
• Health officials are expected to stop short of recommending the second booster.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 30 Mar. 2022
• Tanaka and his coauthors stop short of asserting that this experiment proves that the illusion works exactly the same way in humans and in flies.
  — Grace Huckins, Wired, 28 Aug. 2020
• Boost-glide weapons launch like ballistic missiles, but stop short of temporarily entering low-Earth orbit.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2023
• Messi did however stop short of fully endorsing the country as a destination.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 19 June 2023
• These efforts, which stop short of approving foreign vaccines, are an attempt to keep the virus from overwhelming a health-care system ill-prepared for a flood of very sick covid patients.
  — Vic Chiang, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2022