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Definition of stop-start in English: stop-start(also stop-and-start) adjective informal Alternately stopping and starting; progressing with interruptions. 〈非正式〉停停走走的;断断续续的 时停时行的旅行。 Example sentencesExamples - We sat late into the night singing, drinking, eating fried mushrooms and stretching a dozen or so words of Magyar into stop-start conversation about horses, whips and dancing.
- The unrestrained art of performance is far more fulfilling for him than stop-start filming for television.
- After the thrill of making my debut in Iceland two years ago, my international career has been stop-start.
- Europe's stop-start ski season roared back into life last week, with heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures affecting almost all of the Alps.
- After overtaking he had driven in a stop-start manner and the bus driver had got out and gone to the car's passenger door to talk to the motorist.
- Touring in Normandy is often a stop-start affair, with buildings like this which make you look and linger
- When I get in there are envelopes to open for an hour or so and then nothing until about 3.00 pm when the outgoing post arrives, and even then it's stop-start.
- We were trying to build into the game, to develop continuity, but it was a very stop-start affair.
- His reluctance to commit himself to one genre has undoubtedly been a contributing factor to his stop-start success.
- From Sunday to Saturday, the storms had kept him off the streets, part of the stop-start nature of his working pattern.
- The bus continued its jilted stop-start progression through the streets of Northern London and my eyes wandered again.
- She describes herself as ‘really lazy’ but her stop-start relationship with athletics and her current achievements put a lie to that.
- Nine goals was not a great tally last year, but it was such a stop-start season for me, with injuries and suspensions.
- This stop-start approach means that more disadvantaged students will give up.
- It resulted in a stop-start affair when better application of the advantage law would have been more appropriate.
- Less experienced players could find the game a stop-start journey as they puzzle over what to do next.
- There is no stop-start recitative singing and the whole work flows along beautifully.
- The game was strongly contested all through, two totally committed teams going for every ball with intent and this led to a degree of scrappy, stop-start hurling.
- He also pointed out that stop-start driving creates far more pollution than steady speed progress.
- Nevertheless they still retained their sound and crazy stop-start timing, now with a really cool kind of spoken singing with some shouts and yelps.
Definition of stop-start in US English: stop-start(also stop-and-start) adjectiveˌstäpˈstärt informal Alternately stopping and starting; progressing with interruptions. 〈非正式〉停停走走的;断断续续的 a $150 stop-start taxi ride Example sentencesExamples - Europe's stop-start ski season roared back into life last week, with heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures affecting almost all of the Alps.
- She describes herself as ‘really lazy’ but her stop-start relationship with athletics and her current achievements put a lie to that.
- Nine goals was not a great tally last year, but it was such a stop-start season for me, with injuries and suspensions.
- There is no stop-start recitative singing and the whole work flows along beautifully.
- We sat late into the night singing, drinking, eating fried mushrooms and stretching a dozen or so words of Magyar into stop-start conversation about horses, whips and dancing.
- The unrestrained art of performance is far more fulfilling for him than stop-start filming for television.
- The game was strongly contested all through, two totally committed teams going for every ball with intent and this led to a degree of scrappy, stop-start hurling.
- This stop-start approach means that more disadvantaged students will give up.
- From Sunday to Saturday, the storms had kept him off the streets, part of the stop-start nature of his working pattern.
- It resulted in a stop-start affair when better application of the advantage law would have been more appropriate.
- Touring in Normandy is often a stop-start affair, with buildings like this which make you look and linger
- Nevertheless they still retained their sound and crazy stop-start timing, now with a really cool kind of spoken singing with some shouts and yelps.
- His reluctance to commit himself to one genre has undoubtedly been a contributing factor to his stop-start success.
- After the thrill of making my debut in Iceland two years ago, my international career has been stop-start.
- He also pointed out that stop-start driving creates far more pollution than steady speed progress.
- After overtaking he had driven in a stop-start manner and the bus driver had got out and gone to the car's passenger door to talk to the motorist.
- We were trying to build into the game, to develop continuity, but it was a very stop-start affair.
- Less experienced players could find the game a stop-start journey as they puzzle over what to do next.
- When I get in there are envelopes to open for an hour or so and then nothing until about 3.00 pm when the outgoing post arrives, and even then it's stop-start.
- The bus continued its jilted stop-start progression through the streets of Northern London and my eyes wandered again.
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