Sentence examples for but managed to stop from inspiring English sources

Always, she had a beauty that came perilously close to iciness but managed to stop safely short.

I also tried the patch (useless), gum (foul tasting and useless) and cold turkey (gave me unbearable rage) but managed to stop smoking before vapes became ubiquitous.

Ramon Sessions scored 26 points, Richard Jefferson added 25 points and Charlie Bell had 21 for the Bucks, who are missing three starters to injury but managed to stop an eight-game losing streak to the Rockets.

By morning they not only had found the bleeders but managed to stop them.

"Tokyo subsided until the 1960s, but they managed to stop it.

"I thought 'I ain't going to do it', but we managed to stop in the end," he said.

The Raptors 36-377) entered having lost three straight and 13 of 17, but they managed to stop Charlotte's three-game winning streak to stay in eighth place in the East, a game ahead of idle Chicago.

The fire also damaged the outside of a metal building nearby, but firefighters managed to stop any damage to the inside, Brown said.

When the study began, 1,851 patients were active smokers, but a fifth managed to stop smoking.

A few people, like this guy, tried to get through, but the police managed to stop them by hitting them in the chest with batons. .

What bothers me most about that night is that dozens of people watched the melee but no one managed to stop it, and everyone involved is now clamming up rather than helping police find the guilty parties.