Stop-short Sentence Examples

But he did not stop short in the region of what is usually termed physics.

The perisarc when, present invests the hydrorhiza and hydrocaulus; it may stop short below the hydranth, or it may extend farther.

In other words, the mercy already experienced in the removal of the plague is taken as a pledge of future grace not to stop short till all God's old promises are fulfilled.

Nor did Roman fetishism stop short at natural objects.

The river speeding on its course to the sea, the sun and moon, if not the stars also, on their never-ceasing daily round, the lightning, fire, the wind, the sea, all are in motion and therefore animate; but the savage does not stop short here; mountains and lakes, stones and manufactured articles, are for him alike endowed with souls like his own; he deposits in the tomb weapons and food, clothes and implements, broken, it may be, in order to set free their souls; or he attains the same result by burning them, and thus sending them to the Other World for the use of the dead man.

The ends of arcs frequently extend to the horizon, but often one or both ends stop short of this.

When the stream consists of drops following one another in single file, no such increase of section is possible; and then the constancy of the total stream requires a gradual approximation of the drops, which in the case of a nearly vertical direction of motion cannot stop short of actual contact.

But we cannot stop short here.

In September he had foretold that it would not stop short of the death of both king and queen.

This is the conventional cry of virgins in rather soupy love stories which stop short on the edge of being sexually explicit.

The first player's bowl has come to rest just in front of the jack; the second has delivered his bowl and is following after it with one of those eccentric contortions still not unusual on modern greens, the first player meanwhile making a repressive gesture with his hand, as if to urge the bowl to stop short of his own; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl.

He was still lying on the bed as before, but the stern expression of his quiet face made Princess Mary stop short on the threshold.

If you prefer to stop short of the brow area, sweep the shadow only up to the crease.

For some children, knee high socks will actually measure over the knee, while others will stop short of reaching the knee.

What if you are moving too fast to stop short?

Just as the iron reaches the end of the hair, stop short and give it a little flick of the wrist, curving upward and outward.

Climb the ladder and stop short of the three top rungs.