stop-start

Example Sentences

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However, Bethell has endured a stop-start year since that breakthrough tour of New Zealand.

From BBC

When my daughter came into the kitchen and heard me listening to this epic — stop-start, stop-start, taking notes all the while — she asked me, “Are you listening to a podcast?”

From Los Angeles Times

While praising individual policies on housing and skills, he said other proposals had been "stop-start", while almost one million young people are now outside education, work or training.

From BBC

It’s no wonder the experience can feel oddly flat or stop-start, punctuated by small panics over whether it was two teaspoons or two tablespoons of red pepper flakes.

From Salon

“We think the easing cycle will continue, but that it will be more stop-start.”

From The Wall Street Journal