Examples of 'call a halt' in a sentence

Meaning of "call a halt"

Call a halt: To demand or request a stop or cessation of an activity, process, or situation. This phrase is typically used in formal or urgent contexts to signal the need for an immediate pause or discontinuation
Show more definitions
  • Force (something) to stop.

How to use "call a halt" in a sentence

Basic
Advanced
call a halt
Call a halt to this bloody stupid feud.
She wants to call a halt to the ipo.
Call a halt before somebody gets killed.
Let us therefore call a halt to this discussion.
This seems an appropriate time to call a halt.
We need to call a halt to this worrying trend.
The time had come to call a halt.
Swedes call a halt to nuclear waste shipments.
I think that we must call a halt to this.
Failure to call a halt to the bridge strengthening programme.
It was they who were able to call a halt.
I want to call a halt to these proceedings.
Of course no one dared to call a halt.
We should call a halt to this thing.
One can always do better and call a halt.

See also

It is time to call a halt to this madness.
I think that now is the time to call a halt.
I think we can call a halt to this.
Call a halt to your men.
Australia is also unlikely to call a halt to admitting migrants.
We must call a halt to this retreat from humanism.
Harris was forced reluctantly to call a halt to the attacks.
We need to call a halt to the personally solicited quote.
And we had to call a halt.
It is time to call a halt to this shameful episode in our history.
We therefore urgently need this week to call a halt to this.
It is time to call a halt to this pantomime.
So perhaps it is time to call a halt.
We have to call a halt somewhere.
Blacktip is forced to call a halt.
Shall we call a halt to this.
Labour is right to call a halt.
I would like to call a halt to these proceedings till after lunch.
I think we should call a halt.
I would like to call a halt to these proceedings until after lunch.
We have got to call a halt.
I believe we should call a halt to this general erosion of our rural communities.
It is time to call a halt.
We ought to call a halt So could we start again please.
Renewed efforts should be made to call a halt to such experiments.
UK must call a halt to austerity and support economic growth.
We ought to call a halt.
To call a halt on Erdogan is to deplete ISIS.
We must join forces in order to call a halt to bureaucracy and exploitation.
Before it gets too frightening We ought to call a halt.
Let us call a halt.
Bismarck himself' had decided to call a halt.
We must therefore call a halt and instead go down the opposite route.
The next afternoon the army group had to call a halt altogether.
The Germans call a halt to their offensives.

You'll also be interested in:

Examples of using Halt
There was a need to halt regional nuclear threats
A halt to involuntary exposure to smoke passive smoking
It sort of ground to a halt after the university
Show more
Examples of using Call
You should call your insurance companies
Just grow a backbone and call her
Do not you dare call them otherwise
Show more

Search by letter in the English dictionary