halted; halting; halts
1
: to cease marching or journeying
2
: discontinue, terminate
the project halted for lack of funds
1
: to bring to a stop
the strike halted subways and buses
2
: to cause the discontinuance of : end
halt hostilities
halted; halting; halts
archaic
: having a manner of walking that is impaired by a limp
… there is a place for everyone … old and young, hale and halt …—
Sir Winston Churchill
Sir Winston ChurchillSynonyms
Examples of halt in a Sentence
Noun
They put a halt to the rumors.
The car skidded to a halt.
Recent Examples on the WebDemocrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 19 Apr. 2024
Dozens of major advertisers, including Disney, Apple and Warner Bros., halted their advertising on X, and as of February many had not resumed.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2024
Eiland said Israel should threaten another major ground war against Lebanon if Hezbollah refused to halt its attacks.
—Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2024
Then an operator outside the chamber spun a valve to halt the inward rush of gas.
—Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
But Crowl's lawyer, Carmen Hernandez, recently renewed a request to halt his sentencing pending the Supreme Court's resolution of the Fischer case.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2024
The pandemic halted the momentum of clothing subscription services.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024
Theoretically, the trial could be halted somewhere along the way.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
Glendale will challenge a judge’s recent ruling that halted a $72 million parking garage project outside State Farm Stadium and the forthcoming VAI Resort.
—Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
The administration has dismissed calls from 500 organizations for a complete halt to all deportations to Haiti due to the ongoing armed attacks.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
Once the difficult triage work of bringing the violence to a halt, ensuring the return of all hostages, and restoring some level of stability to Gaza is complete, the world community must prioritize a genuine political resolution to this most vexing and intractable of conflicts.
—Ziad Asali, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
In recent weeks, Russia has unleashed a barrage of exploding drones and missiles on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, leaving millions without power and raising fears that the attacks could bring Ukraine’s economy to a halt.
—John Hudson, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2024
The guild engaged in a labor stoppage for over four and a half months in 2023 that, alongside a partially overlapping SAG-AFTRA strike, ground production to a halt.
—Brent Simon, Variety, 14 Apr. 2024
And the residential real estate sector, highly sensitive to interest rates, ground to a halt.
—Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
On Friday, dozens of members of Congress, including Virginia Rep. Don Beyer, signed a letter to the Biden Administration that also called for the halt of offensive weapons to Israel and an investigation into the strike that killed the World Central Kitchen volunteers.
—Elizabeth Beyer, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
The Missouri Senate ground to a halt on Wednesday as senators battled over legislation that would effectively kill a controversial landfill proposed in south Kansas City.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
Chloe Atkins, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2023
In 2019, the F.D.A. tried unsuccessfully to get Aid Access to halt overseas shipping.
—Pam Belluck, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
The developer of the transmission line, Central Maine Power, is challenging an order from the state to halt construction after voters in November 2021 approved a ballot referendum that saddled the company with additional requirements and conditions.
—Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
Three Alaska tribes are suing the federal government to halt the Donlin Gold project.
—Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2023
But he was suspended by MLB, then fired by the Astros before the 2020 season for not doing more to halt the franchise's trash-can-banging cheating system during the 2017 season.
—Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2023
The bill would require the Department of the Interior to conduct additional lease sales for drilling on federal lands, prohibit the president from banning fracking, and reverse Biden’s decision to halt the Keystone XL pipeline.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
And without intervention to halt global warming, such cases are likely to continue increasing and spreading, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
Beverley returns Sunday to Los Angeles with Chicago, a chance for the Bulls to halt the positive momentum the Lakers have built with a three-game winning streak when the teams play a pair of games on each of their home courts.
—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2023
Megan Specia, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
This is when the fairytale comes crashing to a halt smack-dab in the middle of the Footprint Center.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
Minor posted its biggest quarterly loss in the three months ended June and has cut thousands of jobs to stay afloat after the pandemic ground to a halt global travel and tourism.
—Natnicha Chuwiruch, Bloomberg.com, 9 Oct. 2020
In addition to full-time jobs for recent graduates, many spring and summer internships came to a halt mid-program or were canceled before the summer began due to the pandemic.
—Kaitlin Edquist, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2020
In October, the Washington Department of Ecology ordered the company to keep its site clean and halt discharge of wastewater to storm drains.
—Scott Morris, ProPublica, 30 June 2010
He is expected to visit Tokyo Thursday and his office has lodge a formal complaint and request that US forces halt flight operations until the cause of Tuesday's accident is determined.
—Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 13 Dec. 2017
Verb
President Joe Biden is emphatically pushing Congress to pass the legislation to buttress what has been a cornerstone of his foreign policy -- halting Russian President Vladimir Putin's advance in Europe.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 19 Apr. 2024
Dozens of major advertisers, including Disney, Apple and Warner Bros., halted their advertising on X, and as of February many had not resumed.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2024
Eiland said Israel should threaten another major ground war against Lebanon if Hezbollah refused to halt its attacks.
—Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2024
Then an operator outside the chamber spun a valve to halt the inward rush of gas.
—Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
But Crowl's lawyer, Carmen Hernandez, recently renewed a request to halt his sentencing pending the Supreme Court's resolution of the Fischer case.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2024
The pandemic halted the momentum of clothing subscription services.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024
Theoretically, the trial could be halted somewhere along the way.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
Glendale will challenge a judge’s recent ruling that halted a $72 million parking garage project outside State Farm Stadium and the forthcoming VAI Resort.
—Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
Noun
Issues ran the gamut from insect bites to difficulties with transportation to the periodic dust storms that ground production to a halt.
—The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
The administration has dismissed calls from 500 organizations for a complete halt to all deportations to Haiti due to the ongoing armed attacks.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
Once the difficult triage work of bringing the violence to a halt, ensuring the return of all hostages, and restoring some level of stability to Gaza is complete, the world community must prioritize a genuine political resolution to this most vexing and intractable of conflicts.
—Ziad Asali, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
In recent weeks, Russia has unleashed a barrage of exploding drones and missiles on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, leaving millions without power and raising fears that the attacks could bring Ukraine’s economy to a halt.
—John Hudson, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2024
The guild engaged in a labor stoppage for over four and a half months in 2023 that, alongside a partially overlapping SAG-AFTRA strike, ground production to a halt.
—Brent Simon, Variety, 14 Apr. 2024
And the residential real estate sector, highly sensitive to interest rates, ground to a halt.
—Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
On Friday, dozens of members of Congress, including Virginia Rep. Don Beyer, signed a letter to the Biden Administration that also called for the halt of offensive weapons to Israel and an investigation into the strike that killed the World Central Kitchen volunteers.
—Elizabeth Beyer, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
The Missouri Senate ground to a halt on Wednesday as senators battled over legislation that would effectively kill a controversial landfill proposed in south Kansas City.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
Verb
The plaintiffs sought an injunction — which the judge granted, in part — to halt the use of mifepristone nationwide while the case plays out.
—Chloe Atkins, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2023
In 2019, the F.D.A. tried unsuccessfully to get Aid Access to halt overseas shipping.
—Pam Belluck, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
The developer of the transmission line, Central Maine Power, is challenging an order from the state to halt construction after voters in November 2021 approved a ballot referendum that saddled the company with additional requirements and conditions.
—Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
Three Alaska tribes are suing the federal government to halt the Donlin Gold project.
—Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2023
But he was suspended by MLB, then fired by the Astros before the 2020 season for not doing more to halt the franchise's trash-can-banging cheating system during the 2017 season.
—Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2023
The bill would require the Department of the Interior to conduct additional lease sales for drilling on federal lands, prohibit the president from banning fracking, and reverse Biden’s decision to halt the Keystone XL pipeline.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
And without intervention to halt global warming, such cases are likely to continue increasing and spreading, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
Beverley returns Sunday to Los Angeles with Chicago, a chance for the Bulls to halt the positive momentum the Lakers have built with a three-game winning streak when the teams play a pair of games on each of their home courts.
—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2023
Adjective
The coronavirus crisis dealt another serious blow to Blackpool, leaving businesses struggling as tourism ground to a halt during nationwide lockdowns.
—Megan Specia, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
This is when the fairytale comes crashing to a halt smack-dab in the middle of the Footprint Center.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
Minor posted its biggest quarterly loss in the three months ended June and has cut thousands of jobs to stay afloat after the pandemic ground to a halt global travel and tourism.
—Natnicha Chuwiruch, Bloomberg.com, 9 Oct. 2020
In addition to full-time jobs for recent graduates, many spring and summer internships came to a halt mid-program or were canceled before the summer began due to the pandemic.
—Kaitlin Edquist, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2020
In October, the Washington Department of Ecology ordered the company to keep its site clean and halt discharge of wastewater to storm drains.
—Scott Morris, ProPublica, 30 June 2010
He is expected to visit Tokyo Thursday and his office has lodge a formal complaint and request that US forces halt flight operations until the cause of Tuesday's accident is determined.
—Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 13 Dec. 2017
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halt
1 of 4 adjectivehalt
2 of 4 verb2
: to move unsteadily
halt
3 of 4 noun
: the ending of movement, progress, or action
call a halt
halt
4 of 4 verb1
: to stop marching or journeying
2
: to bring to a stop : end
Etymology
Adjective
Old English healt "lame"
Noun
from German halt "stop," derived from earlier halten "to hold"
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