How to Use halt in a Sentence

halt

1 of 2 verb
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  • Some are angry that more isn’t being done to halt the bloodshed.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Once the food was secured, the bear left the freezer drawer open and halted itself on top of the freezer door to reach the open window.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Apache Stronghold filed suit in January 2021 to halt the swap.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
  • Over the weekend, Smith's team said the district court should deny the request to halt the proceedings.
    — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The suit says the IRS hasn't done enough to halt the airing of his personal information.
    — Time, 18 Sep. 2023
  • South Africa brought the case, which goes to the core of one of the world’s most intractable conflicts, and had asked the court to order Israel to halt its operation.
    — Mike Corder, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Justin Hollins followed with a sack, then Khalil Mack added one to halt a drive, and Khalil came back with another to end a drive (third straight game with 2).
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The popular video-sharing app is suing Montana to halt a first-of-its-kind state law that would ban TikTok in the state on Jan. 1.
    — David McCabe, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Bishop’s halted seven SFC drives in its territory on the way to a shutout.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Yet nothing seems to be halting its reign as one of the most popular Halloween flicks ever.
    — Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • This is where Ukrainian forces drew the line on the Russian advance in May 2022, halting it for half a year at a high cost of destruction to houses and lives.
    — Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Both leagues will halt regular-season play for a month to complete the World Cup-style tournament.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • The reality, of course, is that there is no way to halt A.I.’s development.
    — Carmine Di Sibio, Fortune, 19 June 2023
  • This summer’s guidance to halt the medication for up to a week may not go far enough, either.
    — Jonel Aleccia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Just as quickly, the mutiny was over the next day, ending with the announcement that Prigozhin would halt his march on Moscow and accept exile to Belarus.
    — Julian E. Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
  • The other is to halt any further decline in the countries’ relationship.
    — David McCabe, New York Times, 17 June 2023
  • But concern over the players’ safety wasn’t the only reason the transfers were halted, say those with knowledge of the league’s thinking.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The agency backed off this year after a federal judge in San Jose rejected its request to halt the deal.
    — Joel Rosenblatt, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
  • That buildup, and the inevitable progression of the disease, is something that scientists have known about for decades and have been trying to halt or reverse.
    — AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
  • Officials were able to halt traffic across the bridge after the ship's crew sent out an emergency alert in response to a power issue.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
  • But progress has been halting, with unions that represent many rank-and-file federal workers demanding a say in the changes.
    — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The World Food Program also warned that famine was imminent in the north of the enclave, where violence forced it to halt aid deliveries.
    — NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Southwest Airlines pilots were denied a request to halt contract talks with the carrier, a step that could have brought them closer to a strike.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • More than 20 trains were affected, and freight traffic was halted as a precaution.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • As Lake Powell shrunk, the river cut through the layers of sediment left behind—dams halt the flow of rivers and stop sediment from moving freely.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The news triggered a sell-off in the company’s domestic bonds, with several of them forced to halt trading after falling by more than 20%.
    — Laura He, CNN, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The lack of structures set in place to support and incentivize the development of Black employees will continue to halt change.
    — Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Collectively, the companies that have halted Red Sea trade for the time being account for upwards of 40% of the vessel market share.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Negotiators in Cairo, Mr. Biden said, were hoping to hammer out an agreement that would free the remaining hostages in Gaza and halt the fighting for at least six weeks.
    — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Led by red-jacketed tour guides, the headphone-wearing tourists glanced at the sign with vague interest, some even halting the flow of traffic to take photos of the sign above the leadership suite.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023
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halt

2 of 2 noun
  • The car skidded to a halt.
  • They put a halt to the rumors.
  • The lights go out and the song comes to a screeching halt.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2023
  • At the last second, the man screeched to a halt, peeled out of the parking lot and drove away.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
  • But the coup threatened to bring the economy to a halt.
    — Yves Laurent Goma and Sam Mednick The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But the writers and actors strikes brought his plans to a halt.
    — Alexis P. Williams, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • As summer gives way to fall, the growth slows, then comes to a halt, and the velvet dies and dries.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Just then, a white jeep sped down the corner, screeching to a halt.
    — Andrew V. Papachristos, Scientific American, 9 June 2023
  • Then, in the sixth minute of stoppage time, the referee brought play to a halt again for over a minute.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
  • With the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel, these talks have come to a halt.
    — Ghaith Al-Omari, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Traffic soon came to a halt before the northbound lanes of the highway gave way.
    — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 11 June 2023
  • As the work trickled to a halt this year, however, he was let go.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 May 2023
  • But when my mother got ill, his creative life came to a halt.
    — Brian Frazer, New York Times, 16 June 2023
  • But Wade Park ran into funding problems and ground to a halt.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • Now, aside from a small budget indie short, work has slowed to a halt, for him and his studio, A Place to Tape.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
  • Yet few families or places can quit the car just like that; such a drastic move would bring life to a halt.
    — Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Life came to a halt during the pandemic, and so did Bowden’s travels as a DJ.
    — Felice León, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Yun said 8% mortgage rates would bring the housing market to a halt and may even sink asking prices.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The assault spilled onto 47th Street and Ocean View Boulevard and brought traffic to a halt, police said.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2023
  • The chip crisis showed that even one missing part can bring entire assembly lines to a halt.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The stalemate, now in its second week, has thrown the House into chaos, grinding all other business to a halt.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • And should a Republican win the presidency in 2024, the process would likely screech to a halt.
    — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • If that were to occur, any government work that is not deemed essential would come to a halt.
    — Catherine Herridge, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Three of them approached three excavators and, one by one, locked themselves to the machines, bringing the day’s work to a halt.
    — Katie Myers, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The vote against the landfill project marked the issue’s return to Jefferson City after a dispute over the project ground the state Senate to a halt last year.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • De Niro Con is just the latest event to be postponed amid the double strike that has largely brought film and TV production to a halt.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
  • His immediate plans, now that his and Zendaya's style serves are coming to a brief halt?
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2024
  • That means, in any particular section of the spacecraft, a failure of a single part could bring the mission to a halt.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Recommending that everyone stay home — and out of work — for 10 days would have brought the country to a halt once again, so the five-day plan was put in place.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 10 June 2023
  • Since the actor’s arrest in March, the 34-year-old’s meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom has come to a halt.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023

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