Sentence examples for stopped precisely in from inspiring English sources

The fight was stopped precisely in the middle of the round.

Had she been able to aim better — the revolving turret allowed the ship to maintain a high rate of fire, but it couldn't be stopped precisely in its spin — it might well have stripped away some of the iron plating and exposed a vulnerable underside.

Scotland stopped Japan precisely where South Africa had allowed them space to play.

Mr. Aitken said he chose Barstow as a stop precisely because it wasn't a destination.

Five Points became something of a tourist stop precisely because of its promiscuous race-mixing.

When Kyle's wife, Taya, asks him about the letter afterward, he suggests that the soldier died precisely because he stopped believing in the mission a self-serving rationalization (belief in a mission would seem to have little to do with whether one is hit by an Iraqi sniper's bullet) that, even if Kyle believes it, is supposed to be porous, and then some, to the rest of us.

Early in his career, while developing a machine that used servomotors, which can be commanded to start and stop very precisely, Mr. Gilmore began considering ways that they might be used in a self-tuning piano.

But some will never stop doing precisely that, unless finally sunshine wins the day.

Nor can she remember precisely how she was cast: "I think somebody literally stopped me in the street and said to my mum this little girl will be quite good in the film I am doing".

She was getting a divorce precisely in order to stop making concessions.

When he stopped talking, after precisely twenty minutes, an aura of satisfaction suffused the room.