How to Use bring/put a stop to in a Sentence
bring/put a stop to
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This is its virtue: to switch off, to put a stop to make-believe.
— Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
These schools are relocating leagues at alarming rates so maybe Congress can’t put a stop to this?
— Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 8 Aug. 2023 -
The big question is: Is enough of this influence being used to put a stop to this escalation?
— Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024 -
Allowing these protests at college campuses is not about free speech—and there should be no question as to whether to put a stop to them.
— Gil Mandelzis, Fortune, 4 May 2024 -
Small items tend to get stuffed into drawers and lost over time so put a stop to it by introducing inserts.
— Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023 -
Opportunities arise, but self-doubt threatens to put a stop to them.
— Tarot.com, Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2024 -
Before long, Trump was interjecting again, although the judge quickly put a stop to it.
— Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024 -
President Trump and Senator Vance will secure our border and put a stop to this chaos.
— Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2024 -
But global antitrust regulators put a stop to it, and the deal fell apart in February 2022.
— David Goldman, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023 -
This put a stop to further progression of the disease, and even reversed some of the muscle wasting that had already occurred.
— Michael Irving, New Atlas, 22 July 2024
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