stop by

Idioms  

1. Also, stop in. Pay a brief visit, as in I hope you'll stop by this afternoon, or He stopped in at Martha's whenever he came to New York on business. The first term dates from about 1900, the variant from the mid-1800s.

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Example Sentences

The previous incarnation of the house, Neogenesis, was started by OpenAI’s Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s former head of AI, and was known for throwing lavish parties where tech titans like Google co-founder Sergey Brin might stop by.

From Washington Post

But a routine stop by immigration officials pulled them off the bus and into detention.

From Seattle Times

America's latest mass shooting was put to a stop by police officers less than four minutes after arriving at Nashville's Covenant School, about 11 minutes after the first 911 call was received.

From BBC

When he’s assigned to check in on a fellow soldier who was sent away after a mental breakdown, Quan takes the opportunity to stop by his home village.

From Washington Post

Harris plans to visit a recording studio and meet with female entrepreneurs in Accra and stop by a tech incubator in Dar es Salaam.

From Seattle Times

Related Words

• call
• call on
• frequent
• hit
• inspect
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