Sentence examples for stopped at the gate from inspiring English sources

When we arrived, he stopped at the gate.

Kevin stopped at the gate and bashed it with a stick.

He stopped at the gate, put the lever in park, and got out.

When a taxi finally stopped at the gate, he hurried out to meet her.

After the checkpoint search, which includes swabbing his luggage to check for explosive residue, he said he was often stopped at the gate before being allowed to fly.

In Friday's attack, a car tried to enter the police complex, but exploded after it was stopped at the gate, killing the attacker and a police guard.

"Villarreal have been stopped at the gates three times," he says, referring to 2004, 2006 and 2011 European semi-finals.

This was once the domain of Baron Corrado Arezzo, heir of an old Ragusa family, who was so powerful that he redirected the local railroad so that the trains stopped at the gates of his estate.

UNDER AGE 14 -- They should be stopped at the gates, but the film is certainly childish enough for small boys and it is the No. 1 movie in America.

Some speculated that Mr. Breivik is seeking another public platform for his anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim ideas, which center around the conservation of cultural and Christian values in the face of what he sees as a continuing effort by Islam to conquer Europe since the Ottomans were stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1683.

The papal gendarmerie and Italian police have foiled a massive potential fraud at the Vatican bank after two men stopped at the gates to the Vatican were found to be carrying a case containing large amounts of forged bearer bonds, Italian police say.