'stop' in a sentence

: the event of something ending

: the act of stopping something

: a brief stay in the course of a journey

: the state of inactivity following an interruption

: a spot where something halts or pauses

: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

: (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes

: a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

: a restraint that checks the motion of something

: an obstruction in a pipe or tube

: come to a halt, stop moving

: put an end to a state or an activity

: stop from happening or developing

: interrupt a trip

: cause to end

: prevent completion

: hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

: seize on its way

: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

: render unsuitable for passage

: stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments