Sentence examples for stop perfectly from inspiring English sources

As a child we sit on the seesaw, and our friend sits on the other end, and we try to get it to stop, perfectly balanced.

With luck (and then with practice!) the boat comes to a complete stop perfectly parallel to the bank with only a few inches between the boat and the bank.

Delaney appears to be a crazy ideas man, and can't stop – perfectly-formed quotes tumble from his mouth.

Robert Bianco of USA Today wrote that "returning with a heart-stopping, perfectly pitched episode ... Lost is an oasis in a strike-parched TV desert".

But when things stop working perfectly, we start blaming our partner for the snags.

What stops a perfectly bankable individual being declined a loan because a Facebook friend has a criminal record, for example?

Jonathan Quick, the Los Angeles goaltender who had allowed only three goals to the Devils in nearly four full games to that point, never had a chance to stop Henrique's perfectly placed and perfectly timed shot.

The least we can do is to stop throwing out perfectly edible bits of the fish that are caught.

I stopped leafing through her book like one might stop seeing some perfectly charming suitor, a person who was pleasant and kind and who did not, in his or her absence, inspire any yearning.

The position of the Hematodinium sp. stop codon is perfectly conserved with the de novo stops in the other taxa.

The 2008 world champion stopped only twice when almost all other drivers opted for three stops, and judged perfectly the tactical demands of needing to look after his tyres while also gaining places quickly.