Sentence examples for time stopped for from inspiring English sources
The phrase "time stopped for" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a moment when everything else seems to fade away, often in a significant or emotional context.
Example: "As she walked down the aisle, it felt like time stopped for everyone in the room."
Alternatives: "time stood still for" or "time froze for"
"The world kept moving," Detective Andrews said, "but time stopped for us".
We have an obligation to listen, for example, when a woman from a culture foreign to our own recalls the moment when time stopped for her, when she was among a group of women attacked by soldiers: "They said to us: 'If you have a baby on your back, let us see it.' The soldiers looked at the babies and if it was a boy, they killed it on the spot [by shooting him].
It was a beautiful day, and as we walked out of the chapel toward the cemetery, there's a clock, and it chimed 2. Neither of us had lost relatives in the war, but the place was just so quiet, and when that clock chimed, you couldn't help but think that all these young people -- even now I get choked up a bit -- time stopped for them at that point.
Time stopped for a few seconds after he made that statement, because as magical as it sounded, he said it with such conviction and without hesitation, I believed him.
Time stops for no man and neither does AARP.
Except in the universe of the animated, time stops for no adolescent.
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officials say one reason for the slowness is that buses and trains spend too much time stopping for passengers.
Nothing decays, and so time stops for the dead, if not the living.
Time stops for a moment while they hit the peak of the jump.
He had the same conversation five times, stopped for five photos, and was smiling in every one.
