Sentence examples for halt as from inspiring English sources

The tough treatment would halt as soon as the prisoner expressed a desire to talk.

The decision caps most of the new development at five stories and could halt as many as 20 projects.

U-14 practices can screech to a halt as soon as boys (boys!) come within periscope range of the field.

His cardiac unit has nearly ground to a halt as well, with 120 patients awaiting urgent heart surgery.

Once the trains stopped running, many businesses ground to a halt as well.

River trade came to a halt as vessels ran aground.

He sought a total halt, as did the Egyptian government.

It has not ground to a halt, as some predicted.

Those halts, as it happened, helped to end the crash.

Those are not trading halts, as in the old days.

Trains were halted as water submerged railway tracks, officials said.