English example sentences with "halted"

Traffic was halted for several hours.
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It was because of the storm that the trains were halted.
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The soldiers halted at the entrance to the town.
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After being injured on the job, Tom's initial plan to sue his employer was halted when he was informed that the same law that had required his employer to carry Worker's Compensation Insurance for its employees also defined Tom as a statutory employee, and thus he had no legal right to file a separate tort claim.
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Severe weather has halted the search for two missing bushwalkers.
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All traffic was halted to let the presidential motorcade pass.
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The production was halted after a horse fled from the glue factory.
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Traffic has been halted.
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Traffic was immediately halted.
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Marilla turned quickly away to hide her twitching face; but it was no use; she collapsed on the nearest chair and burst into such a hearty and unusual peal of laughter that Matthew, crossing the yard outside, halted in amazement.
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Bumpy diplomatic relations haven't halted economic ties between the two nations.
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At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month -- precisely 100 years after fighting halted in the first world war -- leaders from more than 60 nations -- the majority of countries that sent troops or workers to the Western Front -- gathered at the Arc de Triomphe to remember the millions who died in the conflict.
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And immediately the sun rose upon him, after he was past Phanuel; but he halted on his foot.
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After a while Juss halted and sniffed the air. "I smell new-mown hay," he said, "and flower-scents. Is this my fantasy, or canst thou smell them too?"
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Algiers' development was abruptly halted by the civil war of the 1990s.
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The building work must be halted immediately so that archaeological excavations can be carried out.
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Rare pink dolphins are returning to the waters between Hong Kong and Macau after the coronavirus pandemic halted ferries.
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The Ebola outbreak in Africa can only be halted through change in people's behavior.
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The Ko rule was introduced to prevent a game from being halted by repetitive moves which can go on indefinitely.
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“Yes, I am concerned. Some of our clients' companies have stopped working. We have halted work on 10 of our 20 production lines. We are in danger,” Díaz told VOA from his factory.
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The pickets halted me, but I didn't stop to answer them.
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Before dawn on the 6th of March of 2022, I walked in the dark to the corner convenience store to buy two cans of Thai tea drinks, two packets of instant noodles, and a bag of fried pork rinds. I drank the orange-brown Thai tea drinks outside the store. As I was homebound, in the dark, a car stopped as a passenger came out to urinate, and then he hopped back into the car, and then the car fled. In the sunny morning, I walked to the cafe to have iced black tea and a banana loaf. Waiting for his coffee order was a tall bearded man, not thin, with red-brown hair, with a black tuque, black sleeved shirt, black pants, and brown sandals. Taking advantage of the spring-like weather here on Lulu Island, I ventured a third time promenading before noon, to the pizzeria for a pizza slice and a cold diet cola. On the way to the pizzeria, I waved to Gurpreet the Sikh at the gasoline station. A Eurasian girl in a dark-blue-grey jacket, grey-black pants, and white light sweater entered the pizzeria to order a pizza. On the big screen was a basketball game in progress. As I was homebound, a bicycling Eastern man in a green jacket and grey sports pants halted in the middle of the alley.

Then, in the middle of the Tasman Sea, the 98-foot yacht's progress was temporarily halted when it ran into a giant sunfish.

He halted, waved to her, sighed with his hand on his heart, and looked altogether very lovelorn.

He led me up a flight of stairs, and halted before a door, upon which he gently rapped.

He halted it all.