The four-way cock, as above described, admits the steam to one end of the piston at the same moment that it stops it at the other end.
By this means he stops the play of the jet within the cylinder, and admits the steam from the boiler.
The aperture which it stops is there a seat inclined at an angle whose inclination is such as to render the weight of the valve sufficient to close it.
Stops are provided farther along to stop the boards wherever wanted, as at the edger, Fig.
The tail-vise is supplemented by movable bench-stops for holding pieces of different lengths.
This may partly explain how it was that with Horace the Latin lyric stops dead.
He goes forward and she stretches out her hand for him to shake, when he notices the ring, and stops short.
Well I'm--(He stops short on remembering MARY is there.
The signalman who stops the trains, or lets them pass by?
In his hand he holds a lever that stops and reverses the course of the machine; he lowers it and the cage reverses its course in the twinkling of an eye; he sends it upwards or downwards into the depths of the shaft with a giddy swiftness.
An escape so narrow that one's heart stops beating as he contemplates it, he narrates with as much coolness and apparent indifference as he would his deliverance from a disagreeable companion.
Of course we do, and punish the man with death who bewitches cattle or stops rain.
The first handwriting stops at 1046, and is probably of that date.
The first hand, which stops at 1016, may well be of that date.
There is, however, this great dissimilarity, that in the Andreas the poet stops to speak of himself and of his inadequate performance, but still he will give us a little more.
Objection 1: It would seem that the love of charity stops at God and does not extend to our neighbor.
Whether the Love of Charity Stops at God, or Extends to Our Neighbor?
He stops to enjoy the guttural syllables where "Robert of Lincoln is telling his name" in the summer meadow.
The bidding for game by wealthy cities is the incentive to unlawful killing, and the closing of the markets stops the poacher's business more thoroughly than the conviction of an occasional poacher.
He knew it by the straight, direct line he took for the three young men, devoid of any stops or turnings aside to watch and listen.
Ah, the bear is going toward the south and he is well frightened because he never stops to look back, nor does he hesitate!
For a whole day the baby has to feed itself, shut away all alone; then it stops eating, and lies very quietly while it is being made into a real bee.
The Canadian roadside erigeron is well established already in the remoter suburbs; the phylloxera battens on our hothouse vines; the American river-weed stops the navigation on our principal canals.
Nothing stops them; they go wherever water is to be found; and though millions perish hopelessly in the attempt, millions more survive in the end to attain their goal in the upper reaches.
The car stops and I jump out on to the sands of the seashore; I recognise the sound of the ocean close at hand, and the boundless expanse of the North Sea, less dark than the sky, is vaguely perceptible to the sight.
And now whenever my car stops and pauses, for some reason or other, and the engine is silent, the noise of the cannon is heard more and more loudly.
He stops in his walking suddenly and whistles softly, glances at LOTH and then mutters to himself.
BAER emerges from between the house and the stables and stops with his waggon before the house door, where MIELE takes some sand from him.
He takes a few paces, then stops before her and lays his hand on her shoulder.
Takes a few steps, then stops and looks round, scarcely believing his eyes; shakes his head, taps his forehead.
I see her figure as she steals from her work, stops at my door, and retreats with hesitating steps.
With head bent, she plies her needle in silence; but soon stops her work, and looks out of the window through the rain at the blurred line of trees.
Several days went by, and the freighter made a number of stops of small importance.
Stops were made at several ports in Saginaw Bay, where cargo was either discharged or taken on.
My guide, an official of the Ministry, stops the motor, and we turn down a newly made road, leading towards a mass of spreading building on the left.
The barge stops beside the Flag-ship, and the Admiral descends into it.
They lace up tighter, till the blood Stops in the veins and numbness comes upon them.
Early in July they did start homeward, but by so circuitous a route, and with such prolonged stops at the famous hotels of Canada, that it was on a September afternoon that they found themselves taking the Toland household by storm.
A strolling gypsy band arrives about the same time, and stops to give an entertainment to the guests.
He has arrived incognito for the purpose of looking up his estates, and stops at Lisa's inn, where he meets Amina.
Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
I take it by easy stages, and so I take the long route: there is a short cut, but the stops are far between.
There are all sorts of stops and starts on the Quebec branch, so that you don't arrive till next morning, but you get to Montreal in five or six hours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
