But I'd better come up with an answer fast, or our whole project here will be stopped cold!

And then she stopped cold again, because another finger was coming in.

It was- Her thought stopped cold, running into some kind of mental wall.

He stopped cold as the germ of an idea began to take hold.

Not knowing what else to do, the machine just stops cold.

For a tense moment, the situation seemed to stop cold.

Theo stopped cold, just a few feet from the door.

Too much ego on the line for them to stop cold.

Ryan stopped cold, if only for a second or two, in surprise at how easy that simple activity was.

In each piece the music, which seems fully worked out, just stops cold.