Sentence examples for standstill her from inspiring English sources

The interview ground to a mortifying standstill (her derision made me weep in private).

That's why the New Yorker's Jane Mayer said investigative reporting has come to a standstill, her word, as a result of the theories that you just referenced.

It's why The New Yorker's Jane Mayer said, "Investigative reporting has come to a standstill," her word, as a result of the theories that you just referenced.

Such was still the fame of her parents that London traffic was brought to a standstill on her wedding day in 1899.

One time, while playing with Bob Seger in Florida, Smith was lost in a performance of her song Ain't It Strange – "spinning like a dervish" is how she puts it – and tried to bring herself to a standstill by slamming her foot on her monitor.

While attempting to sing "Back to Black", Winehouse struggled to follow the rhythm of the band, who slowed the tempo almost to standstill to help her.

As she does every year, a duck brought traffic in central Dublin to a standstill as she marched her seven ducklings from their birthplace on the grounds of Trinity College to a pond in St. Stephen's Green, half a mile away, for their first swim.

She was already mourning the hat, a gift from her husband, when she noticed the ambulance was at a standstill and the driver was motioning her to come over and rescue her headgear.

She was standing outside the door, surveying the standstill, still 20 blocks away from her doctor's office.

One thing that hasn't changed: Ms. Freedman still gives in to the compulsion to work whenever her car is at a standstill.

She formed her own production company, she fought the moguls to a standstill, and she publicly named the sexual abuse visited on her as a child: a major – and unacknowledged – feminist act.