Sentence examples for halting him from inspiring English sources

But Daniel is often bored, or he looks bored, anyway, and when he does I can't stop myself from trying to steer him to a book, halting him in his tracks with a chirpy, "Let's read!" I scour library shelves on his behalf, talk up books my friends' kids are reading, read with and to him, try to fan whatever spark I see dimly lit.

The red traffic signal halted him.

Mr. Allen halted him: "Forget about personal.

And the thought of visiting Fischer's body on the climbing route halts him.

"I thought we had an opportunity to score a touchdown," said Tebow, who took off up the middle from the 1 before whistles halted him.

They also fuel the notion – itself rather facile – of an establishment-backed media trying any old trick to halt him in his tracks.

The New Zealander used his superb handling skills to dummy, then his strength to power over the line despite Scott Dureau's best efforts to halt him.

Leaving Parmenio in Syria, Alexander advanced south without opposition until he reached Gaza on its high mound; there bitter resistance halted him for two months, and he sustained a serious shoulder wound during a sortie.

After relaying a story about personally attempting to hack David Beckham's phone it took a personal warning from Lord Leveson on self-incrimination to halt him in full flow.

With the hooter blaring, the 18-stone Tongan Lima took Darren Burns' short pass - but the 20-year-old student Barnett made amends and halted him short of the line.

The New Yorker, July 12 , 1930 P. 9Very late one night, a man who had been visiting on Long Island, was waiting for a cab at the corner of Roosevelt Ave . when a police car appeared and halted him.