Sentence examples for during a standstill from inspiring English sources

During a standstill on the highway, a freight truck passed us with a bumper sticker that read, "God is still in control".

Life comes to a standstill during these periods.

Intramural competition in all these sports was brought to a standstill during the civil war.

The bells rang out at Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral and public transport came to a standstill during the standstill as the silence was observed.

The bus comes to a standstill during a heavy snowstorm, and Zdena says they should be able to go on because Communism is dead.

While the N.F.L. was at a standstill during the lockout, Newton trained at the IMG Academy with the former N.F.L. quarterback Chris Weinke.

ELSTAT also revised away a fall in GDP in the first three months of 2015 and now says that the economy was at a standstill during that period.

The ash cloud brought European airspace to a standstill during the latter half of April 2010, and cost billions of euros in delays.

At Adelaide, a nation was brought to a standstill during a long, pulsating last-wicket stand between Ken Mackay and the near-hopeless No 11 Lindsay Kline as they secured an unlikely draw for Australia.

Pam Dempsey, a real estate broker for Bronzeville Properties, said home sales came to a standstill during the Olympics bidding process, as property owners waited for the decision on a site.

Its martial people fought the British to a standstill during the days of the Raj; Kipling wrote here; and field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery taught at the staff college in Quetta, its capital city, from 1934 to 1937.