How to Use stop payment in a Sentence

stop payment

noun
  • The contest people were very nice and just stopped payment on the check and gave her another check.
    — Judy Buchenot, Naperville Sun, 13 July 2018
  • His nephew stopped payment on 21 checks after learning what was going on.
    — Mark Davis, kansascity, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Thousands of tenants have stopped payments and threatened legal action.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The intent is to stop payments to dead people and improve accuracy.
    — Fatima Hussein, Twin Cities, 23 Dec. 2025
  • That is because under Pennsylvania law the drawer of a check can stop payment on it.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • After realizing this was probably a scam, the resident was able to stop payment on the check.
    — cleveland, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Meanwhile, one of the film’s producers is being told to stop payment to a key participant who’s involved in a fraud case.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Some students, financially struggling themselves, have stopped payments and the Fremons to date have lost a third of their income, and more students keep canceling.
    — Nancy Wartik, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Portune has supported Hunter and tried unsuccessfully to stop payments for her prosecution.
    — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 18 July 2019
  • Of everything that’s undermining this season, from a defense that couldn’t stop payment on a check to not-so-special teams to coaches failing players and players calling out coaches, the news from the front is worse.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Felix was among the Americans who banded together in protest this summer , getting Nike to change a long-standing policy that stopped payments to pregnant athletes in this sport.
    — Eddie Pells, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
  • For months, Trump — a critic of the federal health care law — has been threatening to stop payments that reimburse insurers for reducing co-pays and deductibles for lower-income people.
    — David Eggert, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The representative for eXp said that the company revised its revenue-sharing policies earlier this year and can stop payments to agents whose contracts were terminated.
    — Debra Kamin, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • States like Montana and California have per diem rates two to three times higher than Arizona's but temporarily stop payments when lawmakers recess for more than three days.
    — Maria Polletta, azcentral, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Committee investigators allege state officials had the authority to stop payments and ban fraudulent providers but repeatedly failed to act.
    — Eric Henderson, CBS News, 8 June 2026
  • Federal agencies also could resist attempts to slow or stop payments, citing a 1974 law that bars the executive branch from substituting its own spending priorities for decisions by Congress.
    — Jeff Stein, Rachel Siegel and Tony Romm, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
  • UCHealth’s financial reserve, which is typical for a system of our size, enables us to care for patients during times of uncertainty, including pandemics, federal government shutdowns that delay or stop payments to hospitals, or dramatic increases in expenses.
    — Elizabeth B. Concordia, Denver Post, 29 Dec. 2025

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