Sentence examples for exactly stopping from inspiring English sources

Re the not exactly stopping when she'd asked — But even that — you learned something from everything.

You haven't exactly stopped gallivanting.

Hughes's funeral didn't exactly stop being an intimate and tearful farewell to a young man.

That's not exactly "stop the boats" and it does not specify the repeal of section 18C.

And many of Gros's oracular assertions are arresting; if they don't exactly stop you in your tracks, they slow your leap to certainties.

Every Thursday, after the final curtain call on the members' respective stages, the makeup comes off, the bowling shoes come out, but the performance doesn't exactly stop.

It doesn't exactly stop on the concrete slab but hovers over it and you need a leap of faith to get on and off.

But, although Burchill is living in a state of "semi-retirement" in Brighton, having said most of what she wants to say, and getting sick of "repeating myself day in day out", she has not exactly stopped airing her opinions.

He doesn't exactly stop time; painting with a deft, slightly brushy touch and with uncanny accuracy, he makes you feel that the time of the picture is still happening.

The other theory notes that developmental maturity hasn't exactly stopped Western societies from overconsuming resources and laying waste to nature; this theory's proponents, who tend to be apocalyptic worriers, tear their hair at the thought of China, India, and Indonesia following the Western model.

'I didn't exactly stop working, but I did enter a different-coloured world for a couple of years.' He wrote about this separation in his column in the TLS, sending himself up as the hen-pecked husband put out to chop firewood on every visit.