Standstill used in a sentence

Standstill in a sentence as a noun

Now, when you put your money in the bank, it has to be loaned to others, otherwise the economy will come to a standstill.

" Often times the meetings will grind to a standstill while process analysts and engineers argue over the wording of things.

Is the industry now at a complete standstill?No, but only because software patents have largely been unenforced.

So these guys can get burned twice instead of once?Sorry for the snark - I like WP7, I think it's a refreshing take on smartphone UI, but adoption is really at a standstill.

People are wondering why they'd need to raise so much at this point, so I'll throw in my guess:The consumer health wearables market is one that exploded recently, but is now at a standstill.

'If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

It was so bad in the aviation business that development in the US pretty much ground to a standstill and the center for aviation progress switched over to Europe for a decade or two.

Reminds me of the letter Babbage wrote to Tennyson, correcting his poem:"In your otherwise beautiful poem one verse reads,Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is bornIf this were true the population of the world would be at a standstill.

If you put two of them in one aircraft, and fired both guns forward while opening up the throttle, the guns would win and you’d accelerate backward.> To put it another way: If I mounted a GAU-8 on my car, put the car in neutral, and started firing backward from a standstill, I would be breaking the interstate speed limit in less than three seconds.