How to Use stopover in a Sentence

stopover

noun
  • The city is a favorite stopover for tourists.
  • I've been to Belgium—if you count a stopover in Brussels on my way to Istanbul.
  • Lees not sold him on the idea of one more stopover, in Westwood.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Browse the airline's stopover offers page to see the full list.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2024
  • This won’t be a long-term winter storm, more of a stopover.
    oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2023
  • However, Dubai is a great stopover on the way to Africa or the far East.
    Kara Ladd, Marie Claire, 4 May 2018
  • Using the stopover option would have saved me about $90 on the same flights.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Biden will then make a brief and historic stopover in Papua New Guinea.
    Aamer Madhani, ajc, 14 May 2023
  • The third way visitors get to Cozumel is via a cruise stopover.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2024
  • So his stay in Goodyear is likely a stopover on the way to signing elsewhere.
    Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Just two hours from Paris by train, Lyon makes an easy one- or two-night stopover.
    Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Ticket prices start at $199 one-way, with a stopover in Wow's home base in Iceland.
    Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 May 2018
  • Over the years, the pit had filled with water and become a stopover for migrating birds.
    National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2017
  • This is why your next Asian sojourn should include a stopover there.
    Alia Akkam, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The two spies, man and a woman, got off the plane at a stopover in Dubai and did not get back on; both were later captured.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2018
  • The countries are often used by Uyghurs as stopovers on the way to the Xinjiang region of China.
    Mike Murphy, Quartz, 6 Sep. 2019
  • There was a lot to unwrap after the finale of a three-game stopover between road trips.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2019
  • Delta Air Lines doesn’t have a formal stopover program.
    Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 8 June 2022
  • The route shaves off around three hours of travel time from previous stopover routes.
    Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The flight was scheduled to continue to Spain after a U.K. stopover.
    Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2020
  • The group picked up two campers near Chicago and had a five-day stopover in Minot, N.D., when one of their vehicles broke down.
    Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
  • Mule deer in Wyoming spend 95% of their time at stopover areas, according to the report.
    Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Saab, 51, was arrested last year during a stopover in Cape Verde en route to Iran.
    Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Along the way, make a stopover at the Forks, the confluence of the Kennebec and Dead Rivers that’s famed for its whitewater rafting.
    Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 18 June 2020
  • The 16-hour roundtrip included a stopover in Dallas and some Whataburger.
    Colin Demarest, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Then again, after a rough road trip, any win in a brief stopover at Toyota Center would do.
    Jonathan Feigen, Houston Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Many make stopovers at the Ebro Delta’s diverse aquatic ecosystems.
    Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
  • When the family arrived in Germany for a stopover, Joshua Mast and his wife greeted them at the air force base.
    Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The snow is always gone from the fields, providing some residual grain to pick, but the spring stopover in Delta is brief for these birds.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2018
  • The place has also become a favorite stopover for thru-hikers coming off the Appalachian Trail.
    Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 6 Oct. 2024

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