How to Use bring/put a stop to in a Sentence

bring/put a stop to

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  • Wildlife managers stepped in to put a stop to the killing.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
  • This is its virtue: to switch off, to put a stop to make-believe.
    Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Or, most to the point, put a stop to the Chiefs’ two-decade plus postseason drought.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025
  • To put a stop to the lies, the families filed defamation suits.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Would that put a stop to hate speech at public meetings?
    Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In the Wirecard case, the decision to report misconduct to the press put a stop to the fraud.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Still, eventually, the U.S. Supreme Court put a stop to it.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Cheli again put a stop to the rally, her 3-pointer stretching the lead back to nine.
    Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The court’s broad ruling in AFP should put a stop to such efforts, but there are other threats.
    Naomi Schaefer Riley, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • Doing so, of course, would not put a stop to all the fighting in eastern Congo.
    Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 26 July 2024
  • Ultimately, Mark Taylor's side put a stop to that and won three of the next four to retain the urn.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Two women try to put a stop to it, but the states and the banks seem intent on thwarting their efforts at all costs.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
  • If its members had any guts, Congress would pass laws to put a stop to this EO madness.
    Jessica Melugin, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Yes, Hailey got death threats, and yes, Selena tried to put a stop to it, but did any of that cause stans to back down?
    Stacey Leasca, Glamour, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Dunn, of Simon Gratz High School, is adamant about helping put a stop to the violence.
    Abby Cruz and Kasim Kabbara, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The Conners is among the shows that had been using the more than 20 soundstages until the strikes put a stop to production.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
  • Miller put a stop to it and has instead placed a single bet on Amazon Web Services.
    John Kell, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Now Skinner is calling on her onetime teammate to put a stop to it all.
    Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Can the townspeople put a stop to the (wildly creative) murders?
    Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 6 Sep. 2023
  • According to the order, Newman got angry and put a stop to the meeting.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
  • In 2007, the star was diagnosed with vocal-cord cancer that put a stop to his film and TV career.
    Joy Ashford, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
  • The pandemic put a stop to filming, which had started in March 2020, and redrew the scenario.
    Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 23 Apr. 2023
  • After the shark kills multiple people, the town’s police chief, a shark hunter and an oceanographer take to the seas to put a stop to the killing.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Council members did put a stop to some of the reductions proposed by Bass.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
  • The fiercest critics of short-term rentals don’t believe the platforms can put a stop to parties or rogue rentals in general.
    Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • Pass Senator Bob Casey’s bill to put a stop to shrinkflation!
    USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • At no point did De León rebut those remarks, or put a stop to the conversation.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • During his State of the Union address earlier this month, Mr. Biden again called on snack companies to put a stop to the practice.
    Madeleine Ngo, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • In many sports, the presence of blood will lead to an immediate pause in play to put a stop to bleeding, but that hasn’t happened in Pittsburgh.
    Andrew Greif, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Jones was only 15 when Hampton invited him to tour with the group, something Hampton’s wife, Gladys, put a stop to right away.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024

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