stop by

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.

Example Sentences

“She was going to school with the other kids and she would stop by all the time,” Naddaf said.

From Los Angeles Times

He has turned his coup into a media tour, including a Wednesday stop by Fox News to complain that late-night hosts “went from being court jesters that would make fun of everybody in power to being court clerics and enforcing a very narrow political ideology.”

From Salon

According to the Department of Homeland Security, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez fled a traffic stop by an ICE agent in the village of Franklin Park.

From Salon

"But the baby was coming and we had to stop by the side of the road," Abdul said.

From BBC

Catching up on books Since we’re downtown, I’ll stop by the Last Bookstore.

From Los Angeles Times

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