Sentence examples for stops only for from inspiring English sources

Modern Britons are surrounded by water, but we no longer see the sea as what it is: the means by which nearly all world trade travels, thanks to 100,000 working ships that crisscross oceans in all weathers (the port of Felixstowe stops only for Christmas Day and winds above 60 knots).

It looks as though some will not make it -- the train stops only for a few seconds -- but somehow, magically, everyone does.

Alonso looked like he might have a chance of leap-frogging Rosberg at the first stops, only for a slow stop to leave him stuck behind Paul Di Resta's Force India when he needed clear air to benefit fully.

Once in operation, the machines run continuously, stopping only for maintenance and the occasional breakdown.

We ascend steep slopes and climb endless steps, stopping only for lunch by the coast.

As he picked apart Richard Gasquet on Tuesday, David Ferrer stopped only for the rain.

The set went with serve – stopping only for the pyrotechnics at 3-3 – before Nadal broke serve.

Then, wearing his glasses, he began reading the speech aloud, stopping only for a few edits.

And by "more time," I mean twenty-four hours a day, stopping only for bathroom breaks.

As he tore south on the highway, he zipped past cars and taxis and stopped only for red lights.

She once spent five years working on one book, stopping only for an annual month of teaching at Yale.