How to Use bring/put a stop to in a Sentence

bring/put a stop to

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Definition of bring/put a stop tonext
  • This is its virtue: to switch off, to put a stop to make-believe.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • To put a stop to the lies, the families filed defamation suits.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Would that put a stop to hate speech at public meetings?
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In the Wirecard case, the decision to report misconduct to the press put a stop to the fraud.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Cheli again put a stop to the rally, her 3-pointer stretching the lead back to nine.
    — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The court’s broad ruling in AFP should put a stop to such efforts, but there are other threats.
    — Naomi Schaefer Riley, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • Doing so, of course, would not put a stop to all the fighting in eastern Congo.
    — Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 26 July 2024
  • If its members had any guts, Congress would pass laws to put a stop to this EO madness.
    — Jessica Melugin, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Dunn, of Simon Gratz High School, is adamant about helping put a stop to the violence.
    — Abby Cruz and Kasim Kabbara, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The Conners is among the shows that had been using the more than 20 soundstages until the strikes put a stop to production.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
  • Miller put a stop to it and has instead placed a single bet on Amazon Web Services.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Now Skinner is calling on her onetime teammate to put a stop to it all.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Can the townspeople put a stop to the (wildly creative) murders?
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 6 Sep. 2023
  • In 2007, the star was diagnosed with vocal-cord cancer that put a stop to his film and TV career.
    — Joy Ashford, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
  • The pandemic put a stop to filming, which had started in March 2020, and redrew the scenario.
    — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 23 Apr. 2023
  • After the shark kills multiple people, the town’s police chief, a shark hunter and an oceanographer take to the seas to put a stop to the killing.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Council members did put a stop to some of the reductions proposed by Bass.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
  • The fiercest critics of short-term rentals don’t believe the platforms can put a stop to parties or rogue rentals in general.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • Pass Senator Bob Casey’s bill to put a stop to shrinkflation!
    — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • At no point did De León rebut those remarks, or put a stop to the conversation.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • During his State of the Union address earlier this month, Mr. Biden again called on snack companies to put a stop to the practice.
    — Madeleine Ngo, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • These schools are relocating leagues at alarming rates so maybe Congress can’t put a stop to this?
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The big question is: Is enough of this influence being used to put a stop to this escalation?
    — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Allowing these protests at college campuses is not about free speech—and there should be no question as to whether to put a stop to them.
    — Gil Mandelzis, Fortune, 4 May 2024
  • Small items tend to get stuffed into drawers and lost over time so put a stop to it by introducing inserts.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Opportunities arise, but self-doubt threatens to put a stop to them.
    — Tarot.com, Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2024
  • Before long, Trump was interjecting again, although the judge quickly put a stop to it.
    — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
  • But global antitrust regulators put a stop to it, and the deal fell apart in February 2022.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
  • This put a stop to further progression of the disease, and even reversed some of the muscle wasting that had already occurred.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 22 July 2024
  • Thankfully, Jenn put a stop to the drama mid-party before week two’s rose ceremony.
    — Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 12 Aug. 2024

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