How to Use stop payment in a Sentence

stop payment

noun

• The contest people were very nice and just stopped payment on the check and gave her another check.
  — Judy Buchenot, Naperville Sun, 13 July 2018
• The company even stopped payment on the last paychecks.
  — Errol Barnett, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2019
• His nephew stopped payment on 21 checks after learning what was going on.
  — Mark Davis, kansascity, 27 Apr. 2018
• Thousands of tenants have stopped payments and threatened legal action.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 15 Apr. 2020
• Some students, financially struggling themselves, have stopped payments and the Fremons to date have lost a third of their income, and more students keep canceling.
  — Nancy Wartik, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
• Of everything that’s undermining this season, from a defense that couldn’t stop payment on a check to not-so-special teams to coaches failing players and players calling out coaches, the news from the front is worse.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020
• The company requested that its customers stop payments after it was placed under U.S. sanctions.
  — Brandon Kochkodin, Bloomberg.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Felix was among the Americans who banded together in protest this summer , getting Nike to change a long-standing policy that stopped payments to pregnant athletes in this sport.
  — Eddie Pells, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
• States like Montana and California have per diem rates two to three times higher than Arizona's but temporarily stop payments when lawmakers recess for more than three days.
  — Maria Polletta, azcentral, 10 Apr. 2020
• For months, Trump — a critic of the federal health care law — has been threatening to stop payments that reimburse insurers for reducing co-pays and deductibles for lower-income people.
  — David Eggert, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2017
• Portune has supported Hunter and tried unsuccessfully to stop payments for her prosecution.
  — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 18 July 2019
• After a repeal failed in Congress, Trump stopped payments to reimburse insurers for subsidizing copayments and deductibles, thereby boosting premiums.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2017

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