stop
verb (used with object)
to cease from, leave off, or discontinue.
had stopt
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past perfectof stop.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Bags and his wife had stopt in a corner of the court to pack up their property in a commodious form for conveyance, and had witnessed this scene in silence.
From Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 by Various
She, with a single word, With half a tear, had stopt it at the first, This cruel juggling with poor human hearts.
From The Sisters' Tragedy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
By this Operation a Bone was thrown out, which had stopt in the Passage four and twenty Hours.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
Witnessing their state brought these again to his remembrance, and the grace of God which had stopt him in his course, and saved him from destruction, causing him at once, to rejoice and tremble!
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee
We parted--with pain on both sides; and on the same evening slept, where we had stopt in our route to Vienna, at Lintz.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
