half-stopped

Fábregas could have completed his hat-trick but after going through he attempted a chipped finish that Felipe half-stopped before Moisés hacked the ball away.

Cesc Fábregas and Arsenal hit Braga for six in Champions League Kevin McCarra at Emirates Stadium 2010

Jack gave a murmur, and half-stopped, as a frightful suspicion crossed him.

Westward Ho! 2007

Weren't the gods cruel enough, deaf to her prayers through so many years, so many decades and days and languid, half-stopped hours?

Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993

A lady, turning a corner, looked up carelessly, and then half-stopped within a few feet of him, as if startled.

The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1907

A lady, turning a corner, looked up carelessly, and then half-stopped within a few feet of him, as if startled.

The Conquest of Canaan 1905

Lady started, half-stopped, raised her head high, and turned round her ears.

St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864

As she drew near them, she hesitated, half-stopped, and put out a hand from under the shawl -- stretched out no arm, held out only a hand from the wrist, white against the night.

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

Hugh set Harry down, who ran upstairs to get dressed for dinner; while he himself half-stopped, and turned towards Mr. Arnold.

David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

Lady started, half-stopped, raised her head high, and turned round her ears.

St. George and St. Michael Volume III George MacDonald 1864

Jack gave a murmur, and half-stopped, as a frightful suspicion crossed him.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847