Sentence examples for stops at the threshold from inspiring English sources
Ten minutes later, he stops at the threshold of a long, dirt path, leading into the forest, and ventures in.
Even within a political unit such as ours, where a free press is fundamental to our society, the right to know stops at the threshold of the State Dept.
Linde asks the same question posed by many quantum pioneers a century ago: "Is it really possible to fully understand what the universe is without first understanding what life is?" Linde stops at the threshold of entering the mental universe, merely pointing out that the assumptions of materialism are questionable when reality is examined at deep levels.
Why stop at the threshold to gawp at a plinth and its latest silly adornment?
She stopped at the threshold of her bedroom.
Whenever I wanted to show him one of my projects, he liked to stop me at the threshold of his office to ask, "Wait… Is it sweet?" And then, because it often wasn't quite sweet enough, I usually turned around right there.
Instead the series invests in those frights that aren't frightening and in sex that (this being network TV) stops at the PG-13 threshold.
To stop these proceedings at the threshold and thus bar all possible relief for the years during which the litigation crawled along its interminable course seems to me far less justifiable than the action condemned by this Court in Petroleum Exploration v. Public Service Commission, 304 U.S. 209, 58 S.Ct.
It is not nearly as willful as rushing (entering a car before riders inside can exit) or as oblivious as stopping (entering a car and lingering at the threshold, while dozens behind you try to get in).
At this point the heating was stopped immediately and the threshold temperature recorded.
