How to Use stopgap in a Sentence

stopgap

noun

• The new law is intended only as a stopgap.
• But no deal on a stopgap seems on the horizon for now.
  — Jared Gans, The Hill, 8 Oct. 2025
• What began as a stopgap soon grew.
  — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• But those stopgap levies expire in less than three months.
  — Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
• But those stopgap levies expire in less than three months.
  — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
• But that is a stopgap measure that can work for only two weeks.
  — New York Times, 10 July 2018
• The stopgap funding bill now heads to the House for a vote.
  — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2025
• Three years later, the last of those stopgaps are being phased out.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
• For now, the device is meant to be a stopgap for patients awaiting donor hearts.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025
• And is this a long-term fix or a stopgap to compensate for hardware trade-offs?
  — Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
• Wen said the effort is a stopgap to keep opioid users alive long enough to get treatment.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 1 June 2017
• There were other culinary stopgaps for us children on the move.
  — Robert Klose, Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2025
• Just nine would need to side with Democrats to advance Schumer's stopgap bill.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 9 Nov. 2023
• Until all lead pipes are gone, the stopgaps must suffice, experts say.
  — National Geographic, 26 Jan. 2016
• If the Jets want a one-year stopgap option, Cousins could make the most sense.
  — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2026
• The hire won't be a short-term stopgap, Tyra said, but ideally a long-term coach.
  — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2018
• Desir is a nice stopgap option to hold the Colts over to the future.
  — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2018
• But last year, the two sides compromised on a one-year accord as a stopgap measure.
  — Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• The stopgap will need at least seven Democrats to get through the Senate.
  — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Seems unlikely to return and was more of a stopgap than anything.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• Without this stopgap in place, iron is able to seep into the cells along the intestinal wall.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2022
• Were probably a long shot for Brady, but Carr seems like a good stopgap.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
• But Wilson is only a stopgap to Dart.
  — Dan Duggan, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
• So, what happens when a short-term stopgap becomes a long-term answer it was never meant to be?
  — Mark Olalde, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2020
• This might be used as a quick-and-dirty stopgap, but will be quite unsatisfying in the long term.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• That is an area that will be looked at in the summer, but the club are not prepared to sign someone now as a stopgap.
  — James McNicholas, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
• Crews have had to be posted along the line to watch for fires — an expensive effort meant to serve as a stopgap.
  — Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• It was meant to be a stopgap but ended up becoming part of the aircraft’s design.
  — Konstantin Kakaes, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2020
• Attaching the aid to the larger stopgap bill could prove perilous for the entire bill.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2022
• Still, a fractional CFO is more of a stopgap than a cure-all.
  — Anna Mutoh, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023