"stop the sight" is not a grammatically correct or commonly used phrase in written English
It is possible that someone might say this in spoken language as a command to someone to stop looking at something, but it would not typically be used in a written sentence. A better way to express this idea in written English might be: - "Please stop looking at that." - "Can you stop staring at me?" - "I wish you would avert your gaze." - "He averted his eyes, unable to stop looking at her." - "She couldn't help but fix her eyes on the strange sight."
He stopped at the sight of a fellow Hall of Fame trainer, Bob Baffert, who was leaning against the rail at the clubhouse.
But he got no farther than the sidewalk, stopped by the sight of his family's new car, destroyed by fire.
Terry Bradway, the team's general manager, strode into the second-floor meeting room at the practice facility, stopped at the sight of the assembled cameramen and reporters and said, "Get my good side, please".
And then, along his tour of a new museum here devoted to the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history, President Bush stopped at the sight of a familiar face: Alan G. Whicher, a Secret Service agent who died that day.
Then, in April 2005, he took a walk in Pershing Square, a small park in downtown LA known down the decades as the hangout of pimps and rent-boys, and stopped at the sight of a dishevelled black man of about his age playing a tattered violin with only two strings.
Ten miles and half a dozen photo stops later the sight of baize-green rolling fairways rising out of the mist makes one wonder if this is Valhalla where the Golf Gods come to play.
Peter yelled and began to grab her violently, but stopped at the sight of a passing police car.
She told the BBC these initial results showed both drugs were effective in stopping the deterioration of sight, as measured by asking patients to read a standard eye chart.
When it finally stopped, the crowd reveled in the sight of the grounds crew removing the tarp, and unleashed wave after wave of deafening cheers at each stage of the pregame ceremony.
But in the age of the screen, we're confronted with so many distortions of reality thanks to Photoshop, Blender, and phenomena like the hologram Michael Jackson that it makes you wonder if our visual filters will eventually dull and stop piquing at the sight of the surreal.
