stopped

British  

/ stɒpt /

adjective

1. (of a pipe or tube, esp an organ pipe) closed at one end and thus sounding an octave lower than an open pipe of the same length

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Example Sentences

But then again, it did have a sort of mid-twentieth-century look, and its history always seemed clouded, like no one’s stories about the place ever matched your own, so you stopped offering others your details.

From Literature

Ever since the city built a new marina on the north side of the lake, people stopped coming down here, and business dried up.

From Literature

“Books have been hard to come by lately. The humans are hoarding them. Or maybe they stopped using them, hard to tell. But I keep my eyes open.”

From Literature

He added they would only end if Russia stopped targeting Ukraine's energy system.

From BBC

One night while she was walking her dog, she stopped short on the sidewalk: She could move to New York, she thought.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• blocked
• interrupted