How to Use bring/put a stop to in a Sentence

bring/put a stop to

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  • Wildlife managers stepped in to put a stop to the killing.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
  • This is its virtue: to switch off, to put a stop to make-believe.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Or, most to the point, put a stop to the Chiefs’ two-decade plus postseason drought.
    — Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025
  • To put a stop to the lies, the families filed defamation suits.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Would that put a stop to hate speech at public meetings?
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In the Wirecard case, the decision to report misconduct to the press put a stop to the fraud.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Still, eventually, the U.S. Supreme Court put a stop to it.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Cheli again put a stop to the rally, her 3-pointer stretching the lead back to nine.
    — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The court’s broad ruling in AFP should put a stop to such efforts, but there are other threats.
    — Naomi Schaefer Riley, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • Doing so, of course, would not put a stop to all the fighting in eastern Congo.
    — Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 26 July 2024
  • Ultimately, Mark Taylor's side put a stop to that and won three of the next four to retain the urn.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Two women try to put a stop to it, but the states and the banks seem intent on thwarting their efforts at all costs.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
  • If its members had any guts, Congress would pass laws to put a stop to this EO madness.
    — Jessica Melugin, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Yes, Hailey got death threats, and yes, Selena tried to put a stop to it, but did any of that cause stans to back down?
    — Stacey Leasca, Glamour, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Dunn, of Simon Gratz High School, is adamant about helping put a stop to the violence.
    — Abby Cruz and Kasim Kabbara, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The Conners is among the shows that had been using the more than 20 soundstages until the strikes put a stop to production.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
  • Miller put a stop to it and has instead placed a single bet on Amazon Web Services.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Now Skinner is calling on her onetime teammate to put a stop to it all.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Can the townspeople put a stop to the (wildly creative) murders?
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 6 Sep. 2023
  • According to the order, Newman got angry and put a stop to the meeting.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
  • In 2007, the star was diagnosed with vocal-cord cancer that put a stop to his film and TV career.
    — Joy Ashford, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
  • The pandemic put a stop to filming, which had started in March 2020, and redrew the scenario.
    — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 23 Apr. 2023
  • After the shark kills multiple people, the town’s police chief, a shark hunter and an oceanographer take to the seas to put a stop to the killing.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Council members did put a stop to some of the reductions proposed by Bass.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
  • The fiercest critics of short-term rentals don’t believe the platforms can put a stop to parties or rogue rentals in general.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • Pass Senator Bob Casey’s bill to put a stop to shrinkflation!
    — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • At no point did De León rebut those remarks, or put a stop to the conversation.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • During his State of the Union address earlier this month, Mr. Biden again called on snack companies to put a stop to the practice.
    — Madeleine Ngo, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Mayor Adams’ administration should put a stop to all new construction of homeless shelters in the five boroughs, according to two City Council leaders.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
    — Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025

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