stoppage

Example Sentences

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"The two-hour stoppage obviously made it much harder for the players. It's the first time I have experienced it as coach or a player."

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026

The opportunity came in stoppage time, when he slid at full stretch to meet a cross, only for his effort to go wide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

And in second-half stoppage time, Messi added another by collecting a stray ball and working through a crowd of Austrian defenders to hammer it home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

During the race stoppage, it was announced that Russell had been given a drive-through penalty for not serving the five-second penalty correctly.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026

But “standard” by then included some remarkable safety technology, like an antilock braking system, which allowed for swifter stoppage time and had first been developed in the 1960s.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel