5 sentences with 'halted'
Example sentences and phrases with the word halted and other words derived from it.
• « Alexander the Great halted his campaign to pay his men and allow some of his troops to return to Greece. »
• « The Mongols were finally stopped militarily by the Mamluk Turks, the rulers of Egypt from the 13th century onwards, who halted a Mongol invasion in 1260. »
• « Although the first weeks of the German invasion seemed to match the ambitions of the Schlieffen Plan, they were soon halted. A fierce French counter-attack stopped the Germans in Belgium and north-eastern France in late September. »
• « Although Hitler himself was frustrated to discover that his estimate of ten weeks of conquest was inaccurate, the first few months of the invasion were still a stunning success for German forces. Despite their early success, however, the German advance was halted by winter. »
• « After the mistaken seizure of Monterey, negotiations for the purchase of the port of San Francisco from Mexico were halted until September 1845. »