Sentence examples for momentary stop from inspiring English sources

She left her money and her collection of paintings to Toklas — but only for "her use for life" — a momentary stop on the way to their true destination: Stein's nephew Allan, the only son of Michael Stein.

Major Dâmbu put a momentary stop to Bolshevik influence by arresting Milovan and ordering the Samaran unit to Chelyabinsk.

But in reality, most messages make several momentary stops as they are processed by various computers en route to their destination.

(A stop is a consonant made with complete momentary stoppage of the breath stream some place in the vocal tract; voiced stops are those produced with the vocal cords vibrating, such as b, d, g. An aspirated sound is accompanied by a puff of breath, often written as an h, as in bh, dh, gh; an unaspirated consonant lacks this accompanying puff of breath).

There are 22 initial consonants, including stops (made with momentary, complete closure in the vocal tract), affricates (beginning as stops but ending with incomplete closure), aspirated consonants, nasals, fricatives, liquid sounds (l, r), and a glottal stop.

The consonantal structure is characterized by relative richness in stops (sounds produced by momentary complete closure at some point in the vocal tract)—unvoiced p, t, k, aspirated ph, th, ch, voiced b, d, g and by few spirants, only s and h (h restricted to initial position before a vowel).

(Stops are produced with momentary complete stoppage of the breath stream at some point in the vocal tract.) By a change known as the Germanic consonant shift (or Grimm's law), the 12 stops changed in Germanic to voiceless fricatives, voiceless stops, and voiced fricatives (see table).

Stop, also called plosive, in phonetics, a consonant sound characterized by the momentary blocking (occlusion) of some part of the oral cavity.

With the pace of 21st-century life reduced to a never-ending rush from one thing to another, Mr. Yamamoto's "Box of Ku" affords a most delightful chance to stop and take momentary stock of time's passage and to look once more at the world with fresh new eyes.

It's one of those things that you know is so destructive for you in the long term, but you can't stop because the momentary rush it gives you outweighs any potential downsides that can come down the line.

He was killed instantly, and none of us who loved him could stop thinking about that last momentary flight and what he must have been thinking as he fell to earth.