How to Use stopgap in a Sentence

stopgap

noun

• The new law is intended only as a stopgap.
• The House plans to vote on the stopgap bill on Wednesday.
  — al, 8 Dec. 2020
• In some ways, the Ferrari 365GTC/4 served as a stopgap measure.
  — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 31 May 2022
• Just nine would need to side with Democrats to advance Schumer's stopgap bill.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 9 Nov. 2023
• It’s expected to take a few weeks just to find a stopgap.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
• Still, a fractional CFO is more of a stopgap than a cure-all.
  — Anna Mutoh, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
• Three years later, the last of those stopgaps are being phased out.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
• Were probably a long shot for Brady, but Carr seems like a good stopgap.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
• Adding such an amendment to the stopgap in the Senate would force the House to vote on it again, and make the bill unpalatable to many House Democrats.
  — al, 2 Dec. 2021
• The Senate now plans to move a stopgap funding bill according to the Hill.
  — Simon Moore, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• Attaching the aid to the larger stopgap bill could prove perilous for the entire bill.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2022
• Without this stopgap in place, iron is able to seep into the cells along the intestinal wall.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2022
• The House also passed a four-day stopgap measure to give the Senate time to approve the larger package.
  — Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2022
• This might be used as a quick-and-dirty stopgap, but will be quite unsatisfying in the long term.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• Even with the promised stopgap, many of the unemployed aren’t comforted.
  — Danielle Echeverria, SFChronicle.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• Seems unlikely to return and was more of a stopgap than anything.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• The White House issued a statement in support of the stopgap spending bill as the voting took place, applauding the help for Ukraine.
  — Kevin Freking, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2022
• Though the effort is laudable, Ebersole said, the centers are at best a stopgap with room for just a fraction of the children who need it.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• As for the return of the A380 the company positions it as happy news, rather than as a stopgap measure.
  — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• In mid-2017, Abbott’s office scrounged for funds for a new stopgap effort.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 18 Dec. 2020
• The city rented them hotel rooms — meant to be a stopgap — but many remain unable to return home.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
• But in a sign of how far away a broader deal might be, the House on Friday approved only a 30-day stopgap highway bill.
  — Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• So far, officials say the system is working, but only as a stopgap measure for the next three to four months.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• The irony is that Johnson pushed forward with the same type of stopgap plan that led to Kevin McCarthy being ousted as speaker.
  — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 14 Nov. 2023
• The goal is to ensure that the programs don’t compete with private-sector jobs, but rather function as a stopgap.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 1 Nov. 2020
• Is there anything that can be done in such situations as a stopgap?
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2023
• Congress has just days to pass a new stopgap bill before funding runs out after Nov. 17.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
• The Senate passes a one-week stopgap to keep government open. ...
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2022
• Ousting Gensler was a stopgap anyway; a successor could be equally tough on crypto.
  — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
• Some Democrats want to give the agency extra cash through a separate supplemental package rather than messing with the spending stopgap.
  — Stephen Neukam, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024