All three of them stopped climbing and looked down, toward the sound's source.

I stopped climbing for a minute and just hung there.

Can't you walk along sensibly and stop climbing every tree you come to?

He stopped climbing only when he was too exhausted to climb any higher.

But he couldn't stop climbing to listen.

The pressure stopped climbing and the red light flashed off.

The wounded Marine stopped climbing halfway up the first flight of stairs.

High enough to be safe, Sexton stopped climbing and went out to confer with the others.

"The way he was playing with the cigarette..." Anna's laughter took over and she had to stop climbing just to breathe.

"I stopped climbing onto the roof of our shed," Deanna offered with a faraway look.