Sentence examples for stopped him short from inspiring English sources
But when he reached the little blank box asking for his core beliefs, it stopped him short.
On third down, James lunged up the middle, and the Dolphins stopped him short of the end zone again.
Four times Notre Dame stopped him short, although in the final instance, Taylor inched so close to the end zone that many think he actually scored.
It had also sent him, he supposed, to Kath, whom he thought of infrequently now, with something bordering on wistful impatience, most often when Ellie stopped him short of handling some coveted part of her body.
But he has long had a penchant for Warhol, and one day in 1996, while flipping through the bins at a record store in Montreal, he saw Paul Anka's 1976 album "The Painter," and that stopped him short.
Timothy has heard that phrase — "Don't be a tattletale" — countless times, and it always stops him short.
After he puts her off with the glib line that they're looking for "somebody a little different," she stops him short with a blunt rebuttal.
I'm an actor, that might be considered an act of cannibalism" — and Ned almost lunges for it, but Chauncey stops him short: fraternizing, he warns, could get them arrested.
His learning disability stops him short of getting a joke or understanding a simple mathematical problem.
No one can stop him, short of a full-scale mutiny.
