How to Use bring/put a stop to in a Sentence

bring/put a stop to

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Definition of bring/put a stop tonext
  • This is its virtue: to switch off, to put a stop to make-believe.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • To put a stop to the lies, the families filed defamation suits.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Would that put a stop to hate speech at public meetings?
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In the Wirecard case, the decision to report misconduct to the press put a stop to the fraud.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Cheli again put a stop to the rally, her 3-pointer stretching the lead back to nine.
    — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The court’s broad ruling in AFP should put a stop to such efforts, but there are other threats.
    — Naomi Schaefer Riley, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • If its members had any guts, Congress would pass laws to put a stop to this EO madness.
    — Jessica Melugin, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Dunn, of Simon Gratz High School, is adamant about helping put a stop to the violence.
    — Abby Cruz and Kasim Kabbara, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The Conners is among the shows that had been using the more than 20 soundstages until the strikes put a stop to production.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
  • Can the townspeople put a stop to the (wildly creative) murders?
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 6 Sep. 2023
  • In 2007, the star was diagnosed with vocal-cord cancer that put a stop to his film and TV career.
    — Joy Ashford, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
  • The pandemic put a stop to filming, which had started in March 2020, and redrew the scenario.
    — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 23 Apr. 2023
  • After the shark kills multiple people, the town’s police chief, a shark hunter and an oceanographer take to the seas to put a stop to the killing.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The fiercest critics of short-term rentals don’t believe the platforms can put a stop to parties or rogue rentals in general.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • Pass Senator Bob Casey’s bill to put a stop to shrinkflation!
    — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • At no point did De León rebut those remarks, or put a stop to the conversation.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • During his State of the Union address earlier this month, Mr. Biden again called on snack companies to put a stop to the practice.
    — Madeleine Ngo, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • These schools are relocating leagues at alarming rates so maybe Congress can’t put a stop to this?
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Small items tend to get stuffed into drawers and lost over time so put a stop to it by introducing inserts.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Before long, Trump was interjecting again, although the judge quickly put a stop to it.
    — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
  • But global antitrust regulators put a stop to it, and the deal fell apart in February 2022.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Toy vacuum can be a clever way to make organizing and cleaning fun—and put a stop to stepping on those painful little toys in the middle of the night.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The agency has yet to put a stop to smaller consolidations in the energy sector.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
  • And a surging coronavirus pandemic that could interrupt or put a stop to everything faster than a Brent Burns slap shot.
    — Ross McKeon, SFChronicle.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Related Articles Every time the Knights made a run, Adames quickly put a stop to any comeback attempt with a 3-pointer that left many in the crowd frustrated.
    — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Join the festive fun as our beloved Santa teams up with his trusty robot sidekick to spread cheer and put a stop to any researchers who might be up to no good with innocent robots from the Robotic Systems Lab.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2023
  • That’s why the federal government stopped funding gun research in the first place — and why House Republicans want to put a stop to the limited funding that exists now.
    — Owen Tucker-Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
  • For its part, Washington has been feverishly purporting to put a stop to Iran being legally able to bolster its armory.
    — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Indigenous people put a stop to tattooing in all but the most remote communities.
    — Krista Langlois, Star Tribune, 17 July 2021
  • Indigenous leaders say the country has yet to fully reckon with its troubled colonial past — or put a stop to a decades-long practice that is considered genocide.
    — Maria Cheng, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023

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