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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "stoppage" in a sentence

    stoppage example sentences

    stoppage


    1. It was then that I saw a burly German gunner with red bristly hair on his head and a face like a constipated pig trying to free a stoppage on the gun


    2. Not more than the heart stoppage you humans experience when you sneeze


    3. “I would hesitate to use work stoppage as a weapon,” Alvin replied


    4. Thorpe and explain that the work stoppage


    5. End this useless work stoppage, which you have already lost


    6. I woke up again with the stoppage of Maruti van


    7. It is like a stoppage of time, perhaps


    8. Ownerships, monopolies, monocultures are tumorous isolates that create discontinuity – a stoppage of flow: a real hinderance between virtual transformations


    9. The stoppage of all exploration in sailing ships in the east and the beginning of exploration by the foulest most diseased civilization on earth was their doing


    10. The inexplicable stoppage of expansion of the mightiest, most advanced most humane civilization on earth, and a century later: that same exploration taken up by the most diseased filthy European scum on earth is not a coincidence

    11. "Imagine a team of individuals dedicated to the stoppage of crime


    12. There was the usual stoppage at the barrier guardhouse, and the usual lanterns came glancing forth for the usual examination and inquiry


    13. There is no stoppage and never can be stoppage,


    14. The line was at that time clear, and there should have been no stoppage before Manchester


    15. Brooke noddingly appealed to that motive, Sir James felt a sudden embarrassment; there was a stoppage in his throat; he even blushed


    16. There were just a few gurgling sounds, followed by the glottal stoppage of several half-realized breaths


    17. His attention drifted back to her speech, which was a succinct description of the Green Band emergency, of the current state of Wall Street’s insufficient computer records, and the stoppage of all international transfers of funds


    18. While the troops, dividing into two parts when passing around the Kremlin, were thronging the Moskva and the Stone bridges, a great many soldiers, taking advantage of the stoppage and congestion, turned back from the bridges and slipped stealthily and silently past the church of Vasili the Beatified and under the Borovitski gate, back up the hill to the Red Square where some instinct told them they could easily take things not belonging to them


    19. They had already rectified the binding brake that had heated up the near side hub and caused the stoppage


    20. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent sand, had given way and had produced a stoppage of the water

    21. At the top of the Pont-aux-Choux, there was a stoppage


    22. He knows a billion ways to paralyze you! Absolutely rococo with the talent to induce stupor, deep slumber, or stoppage of the heart


    23. While the troops, dividing into two parts when passing around the Krémlin, were thronging the Moskvá and the Stone bridges, a great many soldiers, taking advantage of the stoppage and congestion, turned back from the bridges and slipped stealthily and silently past the church of Vasíli the Beatified and under the Borovítski gate, back up the hill to the Red Square where some instinct told them they could easily take things not belonging to them


    24. He gave one look at it and shouted to me: "Nah go and ask that blinkin' sergeant what number stoppage he calls this one!" Next thing he fainted


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    Synonyms for "stoppage"

    stop stoppage block blockage closure occlusion arrest check halt hitch stay

    "stoppage" definitions

    the state of inactivity following an interruption


    an obstruction in a pipe or tube


    the act of stopping something