Sentence examples for stopped to replace from inspiring English sources

He had missed his regular train because a light bulb on the porch had burned out and he stopped to replace it.

Roenick, who once disco danced on ice to a Bee Gees tune when play during a preseason game stopped to replace a broken glass pane, text-messaged his retirement announcement to a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer last summer.

The problem was that the technique also wore away the front splitter, or wing, of the car and over the course of the race, that would mean doing more pit stops to replace the wing.

On the same lap, Herbert also retired from the race after suffering damage in a collision with Suzuki, who himself had to make an unscheduled pit stop to replace his car's damaged nosecone.

There are situations in which the response is acceptable -- such as if you thanked a helpful passerby for stopping to replace a flat tire or if a co-worker helped pick up an armful of your dropped books.

The team finished in eighth place, and Modena took the team's last podium: a third place at the Monaco Grand Prix (Brundle, who had only just scraped through pre-qualifying by 0.021 seconds before qualifying a brilliant 4th, had been running third but was forced to stop to replace a flat battery, finally finishing sixth).

Pit lane was in constant action as drivers made unscheduled stops to replace front wings and punctured tires.

However, they have a critical disadvantage in that shaft operations must be stopped intermittently to replace telemetry unit batteries.

His dirge thankfully stops, to be replaced by the much more tuneful vuvuzelas.

While clearly proud of his latest product, Mr. Zuckerberg gave notice that he did not intend to rest on his laurels: "At Facebook, we will never stop striving to replace real experience with something soulless and empty".

Stop trying to replace "asking the right questions" with "throwing more unwanted answers onto an already huge pile of analytical noise".