How to Use stop-and-go in a Sentence
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Google claims the project could reduce stop-and-go traffic by up to 30%.
—Ben Tracy, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2024
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The stop-and-go action of these baits give the bass time to locate them in the chaos of the feeding frenzy.
—Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 6 June 2024
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There was less traffic on the freeways and not as much stop-and-go on surface streets.
—David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
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With the Gophers trailing 17-16 in the fourth quarter, Jackson ran a stop-and-go route down the sideline.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024
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My stress test of compositing four video tracks has brought many a video app to its knees in the past with stop-and-go playback.
—PCMAG, 30 June 2024
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These are part of what makes the stop-and-go sojourn on I-4 ultimately worth it.
—Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Nov. 2024
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But the best topwaters for this style of fishing have a stop-and-go, popping action.
—Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 6 June 2024
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On a recent evening, Ms. Diver, 25, sat in stop-and-go traffic, the red of the brake lights in front glowing through the windshield, as dusk turned to darkness.
—Megan Specia, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
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But many stop-and-go, stop-and-gos later, and my Uber rolled into the hotel’s driveway with moments so spare.
—Kayla Greaves, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
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There is nothing worse than being stuck in stop-and-go traffic during rush hour.
—Kathleen Walch, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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Fed wants to avoid ‘stop-and-go’ rate hikes The Fed is raising interest rates to lower inflation.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2 May 2023
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The improved adaptive cruise control is excellent at slow speeds and in stop-and-go traffic.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Spending much time in stop-and-go traffic could be a painful experience.
—Mike Knepper, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2023
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First gear's short ratio (just 4.35:1) gave my left leg and right arm a workout as the car crawled through Florida's stop-and-go congestion.
—Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 15 Mar. 2023
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Los Angeles, the city famous for its vast freeways full of stop-and-go traffic, has a bold plan in mind for getting people to the 2028 Olympics: no cars.
—Tess Demeyer, The Athletic, 10 Aug. 2024
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Frog the Outside Edges Perhaps the most common way to fish a plastic frog in spring is with a slow stop-and-go retrieve along the outside edges of shoreline cover.
—Steve Price, Field & Stream, 7 June 2023
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Kirkwood would be given a stop-and-go penalty for avoidable contact.
—Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 16 July 2023
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Limiting short car trips (less than 20 minutes) can be helpful because the battery doesn’t have enough time to fully recharge on stop-and-go trips.
—Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
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The entire bike is air-cooled, to save more weight, so three 3.5-inch (90 mm) fans help keep the batteries at optimum temps during stop-and-go traffic or while parked.
—Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 9 July 2024
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Use the same slow stop-and-go retrieve across grassy and rocky points, especially those leading into spawning coves.
—Steve Price, Field & Stream, 7 June 2023
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Before the tonneau cover, my average fuel economy around town (with lots of stop-and-go) was 8 to 9 mpg.
—Michael Harley, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Athletes who perform lots of stop-and-go movements, such as football players, are more prone to calf strains, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 July 2023
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If your commute is more stop-and-go than switchbacks, the 2024 Seltos's revised cabin should make those doldrums a little more pleasant.
—Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 18 May 2023
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Traffic was also stop-and-go on a section of westbound I-8 after a crash was reported near Waring Road.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2024
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The system also regularly shut itself down, even in the stop-and-go conditions for which it’s supposed to be programmed.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2019
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Development of the new 911 was done under a variety of conditions, the company says, ranging from freezing cold to the heat of Dubai as well as stop-and-go traffic.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 May 2024
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After all the stop-and-go rollouts, false starts, and frustration at every level, bosses may finally be getting their way.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 16 June 2023
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Between stop-and-go movement on the tarmac, cabin pressure changes during takeoff and landing, and bouts of turbulence mid-flight, my stomach turns just thinking of it.
—Jen Ator, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
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Whether Airbus’s stop-and-go holding pattern will leave room for another planemaking competitor to step up and grab some market share remains to be seen.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 15 July 2024
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Initially, Mercedes marketed Drive Pilot as the ideal feature for stop-and-go traffic.
—Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 23 Sep. 2024
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