Sentence examples for halt along from inspiring English sources

That combination would certainly bring growth in private borrowing and investment to a screeching halt, along with most other activity in the economy, unfortunately.

As revellers flocked in the thousands to the streets and waterfront, the city's trains backed up and ground to a halt along the single-corridor track from downtown to the main stadium.

By October 1915 the Russian retreat, after a nerve-wracking series of escapes from the salients the Germans had systematically created and then sought to cut off, had come to a definite halt along a line running from the Baltic Sea just west of Riga southward to Czernowitz (Chernovtsy) on the Romanian border.

The overheated, heartily mannered revels aboard the train, alternating between the gourmand Mickey's grandiose culinary extravagances and the improvised musical soirées, come to a rapid halt, along with the train itself: in Inner Mongolia, a seeming troupe of bandits force the passengers off the train and won't let it go before taking the women hostage and bringing them to their encampment.

In debt-laden Italy, attempts to overhaul the economy have ground to a halt, along with business investment.

As TV news choppers broadcast the astonishing spectacle--the white Bronco slowly wending its way across Southern California, a cadre of 20 black-and-white squad cars in its wake--traffic came to a halt along the freeways from Disneyland to Los Angeles and commuters jammed the overpasses to cheer and wave at Simpson as he passed.

As an active and intriguing off-season shifts into a higher gear, the Lakers' time in the limelight could come to a halt, passing along with the league's two-week moratorium on free-agent signings and trades, which ended at 12 01 this morning.

TRAFFIC halts along a southern highway with turquoise rivers and lakes.

The intention seems to be to slow down the prose so it works like Gordon's art, halting along frame by frame, sentence by sentence.

LIKE a colossal snowplow, the last continental glacier to push down into the Poconos halted along a line near where Interstate 80 now runs, molding mountains, scattering boulders and sculpturing the spot that became Lake Harmony, Pa.

The faithful, in white robes, moved from church to church, walking through labyrinthine tunnels to reach a house of worship in a cave, clambering up slippery steps into a monolithic one, halting along the way to press their lips against the moist sacred walls.