Sentence examples for she stopped dead from inspiring English sources

She stopped dead in her tracks.

"She stopped dead and next minute there was a swarm.

When the mare smelled the water, she stopped dead and stood staring.

And when Mary, my wife, came to the studio, she stopped dead.

One wintry afternoon last month, I was strolling through a forest with a philosopher friend when she stopped dead in her tracks, all of a sudden, staring up through the trees at a patch of blue sky.

When she first walks into Ginger's apartment, she stops dead, as if paralyzed by its unspeakable ordinariness.

Her most commonly used adjective is "amazing," often uttered just before she stops dead in front of something — an oddly formal pile of sidewalk trash, an unusual detail in a building's façade, a sign with eccentric spelling or grammar — that few other people would notice.

Her most commonly used adjective is "amazing," often uttered just before she stops dead in front of something an oddly formal pile of sidewalk trash, an unusual detail in a building's façade, a sign with eccentric spelling or grammar that few other people would notice.

sidewalk was jammed with people By the First Presbyterian Church, which has dubbed itself the Church of the Patriots for the Bicentennial she was stopped dead by the sight of flowering trees in the churchyard.

She too was hit heavily and stopped dead in the water.

She also tried to retire from the battle area to the east but soon stopped dead in the water because the engines were damaged.