The cry, whimpered with no hope of clemency, halted him.

An angry cry, and a spear blade sharp in my back, halted us.

The professor's sharp cry halted them.

But he had barely ascended halfway when a cry from below halted him.

Just as he burst into the weyr cavern, Brekke's angry cry halted him.

Gaur's cry halted her projection, his spark overwhelmed by sorrow.

Her wordless cry momentarily halted everyone surrounding the gurney.

He was about to enter a taxicab when the raucous cry of a newsboy halted him: "Extry!

As the first attacker reached the center of the courtyard, a strident cry halted them.

A cry, a wail for help, halted them.