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How To Use Stop dead In A Sentence

  • They find the game and then stop dead, letting the hunter know where it is.
  • I'm running along thinking about baby-faced, flak-jacketed American soldiers in their armored convoys when I glance at the ground and stop dead in my tracks.
  • You go to a shopping mall and have to keep detouring around people who stop dead in the middle of the aisle when something catches their interest.
  • ‘You're not going any where,’ she thundered as loudly as a shrivelled up old woman in a wheelchair could, making me stop dead in my tracks.
  • We want the inquiry to stop dead and be restructured like the one in Australia. Times, Sunday Times
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  • The athletes form a line behind the cone hurdles and must run to each hurdle, stop dead in front of it, then with both feet together, jump over the hurdle, landing on the toes.
  • They'll stop dead on the street to wrestle with their opening mechanisms, standing exactly where you're trying to stand, selfishly blocking your way and wielding their brolly like an offensive weapon.
  • I then walk towards her bed and stop dead in my tracks the moment the floorboards squeak.
  • We want the inquiry to stop dead and be restructured like the one in Australia. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sight made him stop dead in his tracks .
  • His stories do not conclude, but simply stop dead with a random act of violence.
  • After the first frost in your area, stop deadheading and cutting flowers (unless they're so spectacular you just can't resist).
  • The sight made him stop dead in his tracks .
  • A shrill ring sounded in her house, and caused her to stop dead in her tracks.

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