come to a halt

The world inside a downtown L.A. warehouse seemed to come to a halt, and all I saw was a blur of colors, where pinkish-red hues bled into shades of yellow and purple.

As my Slate colleague Christina Cauterucci laid out in her podcast series Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs, the antigay wave that Bryant instigated in Florida would come to a halt in California.

There is a strong possibility that things will come to a halt as Khama’s co-accused are no longer facing the charges.

After five minutes, the riders come to a halt.

In “The Last Murder at the End of the World,” Turton crafts a compelling whodunit within a dystopian, post-apocalyptic backdrop as Emory, a resident of a small, secluded island that holds the remainder of the world’s population, is driven to unravel the suspicious death of teacher, Niema, or face the fatal consequences: the defenses that keep a lethal black fog at bay will come to a halt.