How to use "stopped" in a sentence

It stopped me feeling sad, angry, or afraid

I've stopped because I can hear voices

Now that I've stopped chipping I feel cold

Suddenly the ship stopped sinking

The Captain showed Ned and Conseil to their rooms, but he stopped me for a moment.

The lights went on and off, and the engine stopped.

We sometimes stopped on the ocean floor and walked outside the ship

Suddenly, the Nautilus stopped

Everybody started to run at different times and stopped at different times too

After half an hour, the Dodo cried, 'Everybody stop! All the birds and animals stopped

'Be quiet!' the Mad Hatter said very loudly, and the Mouse stopped singing.

When these people saw Alice, they all stopped

The Queen stopped shouting

'Well, the Mouse said...' The Mad Hatter stopped and looked at the Mouse

One day I was walking home, and a car stopped next to me

Jenny stopped singing for a second or two, and the others in the group stopped playing

The enemy soldiers tried to blow us up for the next five nights, then it stopped

'Forrest, it's time to -' She stopped when she saw me with the girl

Then, at about nine o'clock, a car stopped near the house and some people got out

I decided to go home to Mobile, but the bus stopped at Nashville on the way and I went into town for a drink and something to eat

When I stopped playing, the rest of the people walked away

The small sum of money which she received from her husband stopped when he died in 1886

The townspeople, who had never seen him before, watched with interest as he stopped for water at a fountain

Children followed him to the marketplace, where he stopped for more water at another fountain

Finally he stopped and sat, exhausted, on a rock

The Thenardiers did not feel guilty about treating Cosette badly because Fantine had stopped sending them regular payments.

Miserably, she picked up a large, empty bucket that was almost as big as she was, and was walking with it to the door when Madame Thenardier stopped her.

She managed a few more steps, and stopped again

Somewhere on the outskirts of Paris, Jean Valjean stopped outside a large, ancient building with damp walls

He blew out the candle and, just as he was kissing Cosette on the forehead, the footsteps stopped

Valjean's heart almost stopped beating and he began to sweat.

Every few minutes, he stopped in the shadows of a doorway or at the corner of a street to look back

On the other side of the river, he stopped at the entrance of a high-walled alley and looked back

Then, for some reason, Marius stopped going to the Luxembourg Gardens

Without intending to, he stopped, turned round and walked past the bench again

Taking a deep breath, he rose and was going to pass the bench for a third time when he stopped

Outside it had stopped snowing, and a full moon was growing steadily brighter above the mist

They had only gone a few steps when Eponine stopped and said, 'You remember you promised me something?'

Seeing Valjean on his doorstep, the boy stopped and asked, 'Do you live in this street?'

Within half an hour the sound of gunfire in other places had stopped, and the rebels knew that they were alone

At last, exhausted, he stopped beneath a large grille that brought him much-needed light and fresh air

He had to bend as the roof of the tunnel became lower, but when he reached the light, Valjean stopped and gave a cry of despair

But I think it would be better if you stopped seeing her.'

Besides, if I suddenly stopped visiting, people would become suspicious and begin to talk

She stopped calling him 'father' or asking him questions

She could not understand why her father, as she still thought of Valjean, had stopped visiting her

She stopped twice: once at the house of one of Mrs Dawson's friends and once at a local pub

When I was in the van, it stopped, and I hit one of the guards, took his keys and ran

I just stopped in to confess about stealing another bottle of whiskey from the shop

On the third day his truck stopped on the highway

"Did you get home OK?" Then she stopped

They both stopped, and laughed.

Her legs had stopped trembling, more or less, and she wanted to get out of there

He stopped, and Sala realized what he was going to say.

Sala's heart almost stopped

She'd stopped gardening

Sala stopped soon afterward, and, feeling guilty, she sent a message to Cham.

"The bug has stopped now

Every few steps, Sala stopped to listen

De Winter stopped the car at the very edge

He slowed down the car and we stopped by the side of the road

Maxim drove up to the wide stone steps and stopped the car in front of them

There was a sound outside the door and Mrs Danvers stopped talking

Is it safe to swim in the bays?' Everyone stopped talking

She stopped, her face rather red

As I went down to dinner, I stopped in front of the picture of the young girl

He stopped

Maxim stopped suddenly and pushed me away from him.

It was dark...' He stopped

The Colonel stopped suddenly as Maxim came back into the hall.

Maxim stopped the car and we got out

Dr Baker stopped and looked down at the files.

Two blocks from her house, intending to buy a quart of milk and a loaf of whole-wheat bread, Tina stopped at a twenty-four-hour market and parked in the dry yellow drizzle of a sodium-vapor light, beside a gleaming, cream-colored Chevrolet station wagon

As she started toward the door, she caught sight of the easel, stopped, and turned

When he finally stopped hugging Tina, he could not stand still

She stopped first at the booth next to Mainway's

The refrigerator motor stopped running

Vivienne reached for the doorknob but stopped before touching it, unable to believe what she was seeing

Just as she reached the AM-FM tuner, the banshee wail stopped

Gradually, as her ears stopped ringing, Vivienne perceived the soft empty hiss of the stereo speakers

As abruptly as the bed had started bouncing up and down, it now stopped

Helen Mainway chattered excitedly about the spectacular special effects, and Elliot Stryker had an endless supply of compliments as well as some astute observations about the technical aspects of the production, and Charlie Mainway poured a third bottle of Dom PS 233; rignon, and the house lights came up, and the audience reluctantly began to leave, and Tina hardly had a chance to sip her champagne because of all the people who stopped by the table to congratulate her.

Then the shrill noise abruptly stopped, and the digital display flashed with rapidly changing numbers

She stopped at the easel, set it up as it belonged, hesitated, then turned the chalkboard toward her.

Halfway across the long room, they stopped at a clearing where a middle-aged man lay on his back, unconscious, in front of a blackjack table

He stopped walking and stared at her

She stopped and regarded him with contempt and sorrow.

The printer stopped.

I stopped in to see

She stopped pacing

He held her until she stopped shuddering.

They stopped at the end of the next block

Both intruders stopped near the refrigerator, twelve or fourteen feet from Elliot

Bob stopped, obviously relieved that his hulking accomplice was going to deal with Elliot.

Then the big man stopped.

Elliot put a hand on her shoulder, stopped her, and turned her around just as they entered the bedroom

Then it stopped dwindling as it also accelerated.

Tom's hand stopped short of the button.

They stopped at a red traffic light

They stopped at another red traffic light.

Tina stopped when they reached the purple light under the mercury-vapor lamp

Elvira stopped by the table and asked if they wanted anything more

The other customers stopped talking and turned to stare at the stuttering machine.

The two words stopped repeating

He stopped to have a word with a strikingly pretty cocktail waitress, and she smiled at him

The judge stopped pacing

The windshield wipers stopped thumping.

At the first window with light behind it, Elliot stopped

When they were nearly halfway across the graveyard, when Elliot was positive they weren't being pursued, he stopped, leaned against a tall monument, and tried not to take such huge, deep gulps of the painfully cold air

He swung right at the intersection and stopped in the middle of the new street.

She stopped the car, and he got out

The map stopped curling

After half a minute, all of the unnatural movement stopped, and the room rapidly grew warm again.

When the Explorer reached this gap, Elliot swung into the turnoff and stopped

He stopped, put the Explorer in reverse, and backed up twenty feet, until the headlights were shining on the trail that she had spotted.

The guard stopped halfway to the Explorer and turned toward the gate when he saw it moving, unable to believe his eyes.

But if we closed up shop, if we stopped doing this sort of research just because we were afraid of men like Tamaguchi winding up in charge of it, we'd be conceding so much ground to our enemies that we wouldn't survive for long

I began to laugh but stopped when I saw my uncle's white face.

Holmes stopped the young man for a minute

I had just managed to pull on trousers and a shirt and grab a hat and coat, when a black Citroen stopped outside the door.

The commissaire drove through the open factory gate, stopped by the main entrance, and we got out of the car

'Perhaps it was set that way last night when work stopped.'

I stopped at the door, horrified

That night, as I began to take Andre's dinner down to him, I stopped by the telephone

Then the noise stopped and a sheet of paper came under the door

I opened the door and then stopped

I took a few steps across the room and then stopped

'When he fell forward, the clock was pushed over and it stopped

And the clock fell over and has stopped at 6.22.'

'But if Redding is lying...' Melchett stopped

Oh, could it have been...?' She stopped, pale with excitement.

So I said I'd wait, too.' He stopped.

I hoped no one would see me, but of course, Miss Marple was in her garden! She stopped me and I explained I was going to meet my husband

She stopped when she saw us

On my way home, Dr Haydock stopped his car beside me just outside his house

'Oh!' Miss Marple was just about to step into the garden when she suddenly stopped

It was eleven o'clock at night, but when I saw a light in a certain upstairs window, I stopped and rang the doorbell

Just before twenty past six, she walked past my garden and stopped to speak to me

But luckily the heat stopped him before he could get his hands on the metal

But now the sounds inside had stopped, and a thin circle of bright metal showed between its top and body.

The top had certainly stopped turning.

Black figures in twos and threes moved forwards, stopped, watched, and moved again, getting closer and closer to the pit.

Then the humming stopped and the black, rounded object sank slowly out of sight into the pit.

I stopped.

I stopped in the doorway, at a safe distance from it.

He stopped for a moment, then walked across to the house.

We shouted and they stopped while we hurried towards them

Everyone stood still, stopped by the sudden sound of battle, near us but invisible to us.

He learned that several unusual telegrams had been received in the morning from Byfleet and Chertsey stations, but that these had suddenly stopped

The man who had run away had now stopped and turned and was following my brother at a greater distance.

He would have had very little chance if the younger lady had not very bravely stopped the cart and returned to help him

They both stopped further down the road, where the third man lay unconscious.

They stopped and waited for a few hours, but the doctor did not appear

My brother stopped the horse.

My brother went into the crowd and stopped a horse pulling a cart, while she drove in front of it

There they stopped for the rest of the afternoon, because they were all exhausted.

Outside and very near was the noise from a machine, which started and stopped.

The bottle hit the floor and broke, and I stopped fighting and got up

I turned, tripped over the curate and stopped at the hall door

'Stop!' he cried, when I was within ten metres of him, and I stopped

I stopped, on hands and knees, because we had come to the bushes.

And just as I was beginning to face these things, the soldier stopped digging and looked at me.

I stopped, staring towards Kensington Gardens.

Then the sound of 'Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla' stopped

Across the pit, on its further edge, lay the great flying-machine which they had been testing in our heavier atmosphere when disease and death stopped them

Perhaps it was the last to die, and its voice had gone on and on until its machinery stopped

I was curious and I stopped to find the twisted and broken dog-cart with the whitened bones of the horse

I remembered how I could not concentrate that morning, hardly a month before, and how I had stopped work to get my newspaper from the newsboy

I stopped for a minute in front of it to look for that strange face

We stopped at Kempton Park and had lunch under the trees

We stopped there and decided to spend the night on the boat

We continued slowly up the river, and stopped for lunch near Monkey Island

The cat stopped in the middle of the road and looked at Montmorency.

We towed the boat past Henley and stopped near Wargrave for lunch

We stopped for the night at Day's Lock.

The rain never stopped

I stopped it and asked the driver to take the young woman into London

The carriage stopped and the driver spoke to the policeman: 'Have you seen a woman dressed in white?'

Laura continued walking, but I whispered to her, 'Stop! Don't make an enemy of the Count!' We stopped and waited.

Then she suddenly stopped speaking and listened.

She stopped in front of me and lifted up her veil

'A very aristocratic family! Especially on his mother's side!' She stopped speaking suddenly, as if she had said something she did not mean to say.

The driver stopped the bus and asked four black people to stand up

Later, Iran's government stopped women from becoming judges.

She helped many people in prison, and she stopped them from getting hurt by the prison workers

She even stopped eating

But the programme was stopped before the women could finish their last test