Sentence examples for have stopped around from inspiring English sources

The curators could easily have stopped around 1945, but in a riskier move they chose to bring Cézanne into the postwar period, all the way up to the present.

None of them offer anything nouvelle - their gastronomic clocks appear to have stopped around 20 years ago.

The age-old practice appeared to have stopped around the middle of the 19th century, possibly with the introduction of Christianity, according to the study.

I tried hard to stop thinking about the turbulence and focus on the in-flight movie, and it must have worked because when the credits started rolling two hours later, I was horrified to realize that we were still holding hands as we droned our way across the Atlantic, particularly as the turbulence had stopped around an hour and a half ago.

It is almost as if time has stood still, the clock having stopped around the time Blondie was singing 'Sunday Girl'.

I was terrified, it felt like time had stopped around us.

Even the birds have stopped flying around here.

I should have stopped looking around at everybody".

At the faded Art Deco Majestic café, time seems to have stopped somewhere around 1950: shoppers take coffee and cakes as a piano tinkles.

His heart must have stopped when, around dusk, Gov. John A. Andrew informed him that a "mob" was "beating the police" and "there was every appearance of serious trouble during the coming night".

Poker may have stopped rattling around alleys and lesser parts of town, but there is increasing chatter on the Web and elsewhere that suggests backstage bankrolling among players, leading to dramatic finishes played mostly for the cameras.