Sentence examples for standstill I from inspiring English sources

"Now that I am at a standstill, I have to face the question of what we as a family are doing and how we are going to do into the future," Mr. Winters said.

As soon as the C-130 came to a standstill, I moved to the hatch at the back, impatient to get to work.

Once the plane had taxied to a standstill, I climbed down the escalator and saw Hans Modrow, who was awaiting me about 10 meters away from the steps with a blank expression on his face.

Wood wrote, "I feared everything would come to a standstill, for I had never so much as engaged an extra player without having discussed it with him first".

There are really balanced artists who can remain upright at a standstill, but I can't do that.

"Well, things, the economy, for example, are at a standstill, and I want a change in power anyway," he said.

Drivers get angry when they're at a standstill and I pass them in the bike lane, as though the traffic is my fault.

In the grand scheme of astronomical motions — imagine, too, the rotation of the Milky Way and the overall expansion of the universe — my car had come to a virtual standstill, though I was doing 80.

During this cold and feverish winter, it had seemed that I was nursing around the clock, a clock that spun at deranging speeds, doubling my son's size in three months, yet sometimes slowing nearly to a standstill, until I could hear each blue stalactite dripping inside the cave of the present moment: 5 02 A.M., 5 03 A.M. I felt possessed by a wild joy.

This afternoon I went down into the city for the first time and almost brought Abu Dhabi to a standstill, but I'll tell you about that next time.

My book came to a complete standstill as I tripped heavily over that damned writer's block.