stopping

IPA: stˈɑpɪŋ

The act of something that stops; a halt.
(dentistry, dated) Material for filling a cavity in a tooth.
(mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.

Examples of "stopping" in Sentences

Though one has to be careful of the term stopping the march of the supermarkets.
Less than a month later, Drayton would successfully defend his title stopping Moroccan born Said Skouma, (22-4), of France, in the
These two injuries, though, are definitely a concern as both Taylor and Whitley are vital in stopping Georgia Tech's dynamic option attack.
But the strategy we have to use in stopping them is shaming and brow-beating the fat, retarded knuckle-draggers who buy every single issue of the "Summer Event".
If you begin stopping at the Johnstown equivalents while going from PHL to PIT, you quickly dissipate much of the value that HSR might have had for PHL-PIT travelers.
Here was a man who devotes his life to what he describes as stopping the mass killings of babies chastising an event for including someone in our program who wants to stop the mass killings of gays and lesbians.
My own report, to be published shortly, will conclusively prove police discrimination in stopping sword slashing paranoid-schizophrenics 50 times more regularly than those in the general population, demanding the end of this prejudiced practice.
As often happens, it wasn't clear that the bad guys 'conspiracy made sense (and even less clear how the Doctor had got involved in stopping it; or for that matter where the cat's cradle of the title comes into it) but I very much enjoyed the ride.