How to Use standstill in a Sentence

standstill

noun

• The accident brought traffic to a standstill.
• Over the last couple of months, the race has been at a standstill.
  — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2023
• The sizable walkout had left the school at a near standstill.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2022
• The economy all but came to a standstill when covid took hold in March 2020.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023
• If it isn’t resolved quickly, the House will come to a standstill.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2023
• By the time Trump lands, the fair has virtually come to a standstill.
  — Time, 16 Aug. 2023
• But the prospects appeared unlikely with the talks at a standstill.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2024
• In Homs — and across the country — life has come to a virtual standstill.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• But if any one of the unions decides to strike, all 12 unions will honor it, bringing the system to a standstill.
  — Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2022
• The twin spending fights have ground Congress to a standstill in recent weeks.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• Viewers will see the horses helping a small town brought to a standstill by a snowstorm.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• Mortgage rates, at 7.6 percent, are at a two-decade high, and the housing market has all but come to a standstill.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• The vehicle will brake, come to a full stop in its current lane, turn on the hazard lights and bring itself to a standstill.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• As the wind from the Wolf-Rayet collides with and entangles the wind of the massive companion, the two fight each other to a standstill.
  — Peter Tuthill, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• Unions have called for nationwide strikes and protests for this Thursday, hoping to bring the country to a standstill.
  — Pierre Bairin, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
• But Saturday, attempts to get through the closures downtown took him down to 18th Street, back up to the West Loop and through streets jammed to a standstill.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
• Video also showed three lanes of traffic at a standstill on the Manhattan Bridge.
  — Jessica Moore, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2024
• Both versions furthermore are slower off the blocks when making the sprint to 60 miles per hour from a standstill.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2023
• But Philly’s fight, on display throughout this October, was enough to turn this game into a standstill when the stars graced the stage.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2022
• In December 2019 her health crisis brought her to a standstill.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• An armored vehicle crept to a standstill in the driveway.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• The years crawled by until, eventually, time came to a standstill.
  — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2023
• In early 2020, the coronavirus pandemic brought air travel across the country and the world to a near standstill for months.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 23 Jan. 2023
• One exception was the pandemic year of 2020, when travel all but came to a standstill.
  — Cathy Bussewitz, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
• There are rising fears that cities are once again coming to a standstill in the world’s second largest economy.
  — Laura He, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
• Hall, for her part, acknowledges their friendship is at a standstill.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
• A day after the massacre, life in El Geneina came to a standstill, according to eyewitnesses and video from the ground.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
• But those efforts came as the conference has struggled with deep divisions that has at times brought the House to a standstill.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
• San Francisco’s North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• Videos posted to social media showed people running into the ocean to escape the blaze as the roads were filled with cars and had come to a standstill.
  — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024