stopping
noun
a barrier erected to prevent the flow of air or gas.
stoppings
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pluralof stopping.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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There were so many things going on with the police stoppings and stuff at the time, and it just really hit me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
Smith also likes to push his clarinet above top C or to engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the roads advance other pillars are driven through in the same manner, the passages first made being closed by stoppings of broken rock, or built up with brick and mortar walls, or both.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
Its stoppings and startings were endless; the night grew very cold; the old lady, gathering her fur cloak around her, resettled herself in her corner and slept again.
From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith
We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
