Illustration: Suddenly, close above her, the steps came to a dead stop.
Suddenly, close above her, the steps came to a dead stop.
When the Solar Guard captain signed off and his image faded from the teleceiver screen, Astro and Roger numbly complied with Newton's abrupt orders, bringing the ship to a dead stop in space and opening the starboard air lock.
Watching the control panel instruments carefully, Connel slammed home the switch that opened the powerful nose braking rockets and brought the ship to a dead stop in space.
Bring your ship to a dead stop in space and open your starboard air lock.
The old man jerked his horse to a dead stop, drew himself erect and looked straight at the Ranger.
My brother made a dead stop, surveyed him with intense disdain, and bade him draw near, that he might "give his flesh to the fowls of the air.
Her scruples on both these points, the Italian, who was an adept in the art of talking over the fair sex, would no doubt have dissipated, if there had been any use in it; but Lenny put a dead stop to all negotiations.
Here we come to a dead stop," said he impatiently.
ON the journey of life we sometimes come to a dead stop.
Possibly Fate, who is a somewhat jealous deity, felt angered at the egotistic self-reliance of the man; for without warning she brought him to a dead stop, then grimly waited to see how his boasted cunning would outwit her.
Gradually the freighter Dog Star slowed and came to a dead stop in space.
The ship bucked under the tremendous power of the braking rockets and came to a dead stop in space.
A minute later it began to brake slowly, finally coming to a dead stopat the bottom of the shaft.
Tom braced himself against the sudden reverse pressure of the powerful nose rockets, and then, in a moment, felt the Avenger come to a dead stop.
Coming to a dead stop in a little copse thereabout, she suffered her rider to dismount with right goodwill, and to tie her to the trunk of a tree.
Illustration: "The Ship Came to a Dead Stop"] In spite of all they could do, the ship began settling rapidly by the head.
The ship came to a dead stop, as if she had run upon a rock, while the whale bumped along under the keel.
Drawing by George Gibbs "THE SHIP CAME TO A DEAD STOP" .
Then it will oscillate for some time in a more and more limited space on the line of Indifference, and finally it will stand still without any jerk on Dead Stop, Absolute Repose.
She had nearly reached the end of the hall when she came to a dead stop.
They both walked on in silence, and had now reached the centre of the village street when Jessie, looking up, uttered an abrupt exclamation, gave an affrighted start, and then came to a dead stop.
Here the soliloquist came to a dead stop, and, leaning out of the window, contemplated the high road.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dead stop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
