come to a stop
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.32 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The TV broadcast suddenly came to a dead stop."
- "The car came to a stop in front of the house, and the front door opened, and a little girl—My sister, I thought, as if such a thing were as rare as a white elephant—came bounding out, the dark ringlets of her hair bouncing as she descended the porch steps and stopped to stare at me."
- "The renovation effort came to a juddering stop due to a lack of funding."