Sentence examples for a brief standoff from inspiring English sources

After a brief standoff, he retreated.

After a brief standoff, the guns on both sides were lowered.

A brief standoff ensued, as the ship and dhow bobbed alongside each other at sea.

After a brief standoff, the officers arrested Mr. Knight and found Mr. Casimiri dead.

After a brief standoff, the drivers were forced to turn around and take their passengers elsewhere.

After religious leaders tried to reason with the officers, witnesses said, there was a brief standoff that quickly escalated.

Joshua Waring, 27, was arrested for shooting a man in the lower torso following a police chase and brief standoff, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Ineffectual as it was, the brief standoff offered a lesson in the patterns history sets.

White was hauled away in an ambulance last week after the brief standoff with police that started when he barricaded himself inside his apartment in the 1000 block of Spazier Avenue.

After a brief, tense standoff, the militiamen backed down, and the woman left for Egypt, where she now lives, Mr. Dakhil said.

The most recent example was last spring when five children living near Sagle, about 17 miles east of here, staged a brief armed standoff with the local police who had come to rescue them from what the authorities described as deplorable living conditions.