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
  • 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
  • On its own, the LP, the band’s third full-length, would have been a perfectly fine stopgap release to get some product out quickly before 1967, the year of Sgt.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • House Republicans on Sunday unveiled a three-month stopgap spending bill — with plans to vote on the measure on Wednesday as the clock ticks down to a Sept. 30 deadline avert a government shutdown.
    Juliegrace Brufke, Axios, 22 Sep. 2024

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