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• As a result, life tends to grind to a halt when the sun goes down.
  — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2021
• The end of Moore's Law doesn't mean your laptop is about to grind to a halt.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2023
• This momentum could grind to a halt in the weeks and months to come.
  — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
• With the fastest rate hikes since the 1980’s the property market has ground to a halt.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Whenever the government grinds to a halt, the rich don’t feel the pain.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• Four of their five losses have come in the clutch when their pace and ball movement grinds to a halt.
  — Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
• But the downside is that if one part of the system fails, the industry can grind to a halt.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 19 July 2024
• When that slow-moving wind grinds to a halt, a heat dome occurs.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
• Experts warned that many cities could grind to a halt with blockades.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• Every so often, a kid would use the N-word within earshot of a teacher, and the class would grind to a halt.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 Dec. 2021
• When a recipe simply hits all the right notes, any thought of altering it grinds to a halt for a good decade or so.
  — Aleksandra Crapanzano / Photographs By F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal, Food Styling By Kim Ramin , WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• The final day of that search caused the Boston area to essentially grind to a halt.
  — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• Dak Prescott has been on fire, and there’s no reason to think that will grind to a halt at Carolina.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The pandemic might’ve made a mess of most things, but life didn’t totally grind to a halt.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 16 Apr. 2021
• Around 100 hostages have not been returned, a third of whom are believed to be dead, and cease-fire efforts have ground to a halt.
  — Melanie Lidman and Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024
• But by then everything had ground to a halt with the pandemic.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• Without this revenue, the Russian war machine will grind to a halt.
  — Jason Fields, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
• There was a real risk that key societal functions would grind to a halt.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 June 2023
• And the threat of those additional costs has caused shipments of solar panels to grind to a halt.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• If the Strykers run out of fuel or ammo, the exploitation would grind to a halt—and might even collapse.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• While the labor dispute goes on, work in Hollywood is grinding to a halt.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• The amount of goods entering Gaza has dropped by over 70 percent since the start of the war, and food production inside Gaza has ground to a halt.
  — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
• The turmoil led to its operations grinding to a halt last year.
  — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• All as paroles grind to a halt and overcrowding continues.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 26 Apr. 2023
• Until then, box office revenues are all but grinding to a halt.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• The hurdles people must clear to get out of town when the system grinds to a halt can be excruciating.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2 July 2023
• Shipments of wheat from Ukraine that used to feed Sudan’s cities have also ground to a halt because the government cannot pay.
  — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2024
• As the fashion world ground to a halt, Hudson was devastated.
  — Emil Wilbekin, Essence, 21 Aug. 2023
• In the three-and-a-half weeks since Donald Trump returned to the presidency, investigations by the agency that handles allegations of civil rights violations in the nation’s schools and colleges have ground to a halt.
  — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 14 Feb. 2025
• Like so many others, McCartney’s business ran into trouble in 2020 during the pandemic, with international travel and tourism grinding to a halt, brick-and-mortar stores shutting and expenses piling up.
  — Samantha Conti, WWD, 27 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Mar 2025