Sentence examples for halt for a second from inspiring English sources

Heavy monsoon rains have brought Mumbai to a halt for a second day as the worst floods to strike south Asia in years continued to exact a deadly toll.

The animated figure of De Mena's Mary Magdalene, one foot poised in front of the other as she halts for a second or an eternity, contemplating the cross in her hand, is astonishing – as much for the detail of her dress of rush matting, carved with infinite patience and realism from cedar, as for her pose.

My mind racing, I halted for a second and read out Spotify.

Trading in the shares of Hikari Tsushin, which sells cellular phones and has a joint venture with Pacific Century Cyber Works was halted for a fourth consecutive session, as orders to sell stock swamped orders to buy.

In the 40th minute, the English referee Martin Atkinson halted play – for a second time – after flares had been thrown from the crowd in the direction of Albanian players.

Ratko Mladic's genocide trial was halted today for a second day running because the former Bosnian Serb military commander was undergoing medical tests and under observation after being rushed to a hospital a day earlier.

We slide to a halt and wait for a second raft to come down before we pile into the truck.

The rush of words halts, and for an eighth of an instant he has no idea what to say.

For the first time in about a decade, steady academic progress has halted for fourth- and eighth-grade students nationally and locally, according to new standardized test results released Wednesday.

Google said the delivery of some messages had been halted for a few seconds while others were "more severely delayed".

He said some of the Comex "stop logic" events, where trade is halted for a few seconds or a few minutes, were likely because of an algorithmic trade.