"halt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

halt sustantivo

verbo + halt
Kolokacji: 12
demand halt • call a halt • grind to a halt • skid to a halt • order a halt • ...
adjetivo + halt
Kolokacji: 25
abrupt halt • sudden halt • temporary halt • complete halt • immediate halt • ...
(3) complete, total
Kolokacji: 2
(5) gentle, confused
Kolokacji: 2
(6) smooth, jolting
Kolokacji: 2
1. smooth halt = spokojne zatrzymanie się smooth halt
2. jolting halt = zatrzymanie się trzęsienia jolting halt
  • Then, unexpectedly, the tunnel dipped and, with a cry, he found himself tumbling head over heels, coming to a jolting halt against a wall.
  • Then the elevator came to a jolting halt.
  • Momentarily, Superlo gave a jolting halt, though no one noticed it.
  • This brought him to a jolting halt so abrupt that for a moment I thought I might have broken his neck.
  • Plodding craft kept on their way; then gave a jolting halt, as if alarmed by the catastrophe.
  • The hover blasters screamed for a second longer, and the lander shivered to a jolting halt.
  • The instant Marissa came to a jolting halt, a plane thundered overhead, missing the top of her car by barely ten feet.
  • Finally they came to a jolting halt against an old wooden rail fence.
  • A vehicle emerged from a side-street, crossed the avenue and came to a jolting halt on the other side.
  • By the time the police car braked to a jolting halt, there was no sign of The Shadow.
(7) slow, awkward, unstaffed
Kolokacji: 3
preposición + halt
Kolokacji: 3
to a halt • for a halt • after a halt

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