Example Sentences

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Long before the writers get there, readers with short attention spans, appetites for clickbait or a hankering for anti-vaccine malfeasance will have stopped after the first three paragraphs on the front page.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2022

The truck making its stop in Southeast will have stopped earlier in the Bronx and Brooklyn, in Philadelphia and Baltimore.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2020

And by then, he hopes, everyone will have stopped asking him about that damned 12th.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2017

Any investigation that does not seriously question Piech’s role in and knowledge of the scandal will have stopped short of questioning the true reins of power at VW.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2015

“Just an hour or two. By then my brother will have stopped looking for me. Thanks a lot, Wolfie, you saved my life.”

From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan