He stops the monologues and we begin to chat about the script.
Hitchcock stops, savoring the scene, and repeats that the robes are open.
To unwind, Sharp takes long showers, and stops himself from separating his food on his plate as Christopher would.
He stops after a second, looks around him and laughs, apparently realizing the absurdity of the endeavor.
But it stops short of advancing economic redress and opportunity.
God has given me gifts to use for my fellows, and use them I must till he, not man, stops me.
Then I stops the aperture below, by putting the chest agin it.
There, she's singing it now, and we're snug;—tell me when she stops, and I'll stop myself.
Randal stops her mouth, and struggles to hold his mother back.
When a man first stops drinking he is likely to become censorious.
Old English -stoppian (in forstoppian "to stop up, stifle"), a general West Germanic word (cf. West Frisian stopje, Middle Low German stoppen, Old High German stopfon, German stopfen "to plug, stop up," Old Low Frankish (be)stuppon "to stop (the ears)"), but held by many sources to be a borrowing from Vulgar Latin *stuppare "to stop or stuff with tow or oakum" (cf. Italian stoppare, French étouper "to stop with tow"), from Latin stuppa "coarse part of flax, tow." Plugs made of tow were used from ancient times in Rhine valley. Barnhart, at least, proposes the whole Germanic group rather might be native, from a base *stoppon.
Sense of "bring or come to a halt" (mid-15c.) is from notion of preventing a flow by blocking a hole, and the word's development in this sense is unique to English, though it since has been widely adopted in other languages; perhaps influenced by Latin stupere "be stunned, be stupefied." Stop-and-go (adj.) is from 1926, originally a reference to traffic signals.
late 15c., from stop (v.).
