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.

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.

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

Hurley's young narrator observes: "There was so little of the modern world there that it was difficult not to think of the place being at a sort of standstill and – how shall I put it – primed in some way".

With the nation at a virtual standstill for the holiday Id al-Fitr, the sentence remains pending.

In many ways, I hit a standstill at that point.