How to Use cease in a Sentence

cease

1 of 2 verb

• The child would not cease his constant whining.
• The fighting along the border has temporarily ceased.
• The factory ceased operations last year.
• The plot didn't come to fruition, but the tensions didn't cease.
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• The tear gas and the violence and the looting must cease.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2020
• When Say Cheese launched, the golden age of blogs had ceased.
  — Jeff Weiss, latimes.com, 4 July 2018
• The courses look great, but the projects will never cease.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2018
• Then maybe the brain flatulence will cease and the fools won’t try.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2023
• Walk by the ocean; hike through the mountains; never cease to be in awe of both.
  — Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2016
• In other words, would aero cease to be such a big deal?
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2018
• However, the storms are starting to cease and should be out of the area by 3 p.m.
  — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2019
• That plan was in the works before the cease-and-desist letters.
  — Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2021
• The loss of oxygen that caused his brain and heart to cease functioning.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 Apr. 2021
• The events ceased in 2016, after they were made public.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2018
• Late-night shows ceased once the writers strike began in May.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
• But work stopped and the project was shelved in 2017 when state funding ceased thanks to the budget crisis.
  — Amy Bushatz, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
• When the two ceased their struggle, the unarmed Pickett was dead.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• On the other hand, without God, the world would cease to exist.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• Guests who fail to comply will be asked to cease smoking.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2024
• His woodworkings quickly cease to be a thing in the movie.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Vue was also asked to cease the breaks, but no fines were issued.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2023
• Thus, there is great concern that the heartbeat of Hallyu will cease.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 22 June 2022
• Those shares would then be canceled and cease to exist.
  — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2022
• Mawhinney founded the club, but had ceased to be a member about five years ago.
  — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2020
• These two never cease to amaze in the looks department.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 12 Aug. 2022
• If ducks are coming in or over, any idle chatter must cease.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2020
• But cease-fires do not need to be perfect to be effective.
  — Nicole Santa Cruz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2019
• This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 31 Oct. 2017
• This year, after the springs ceased to flow, the family spent most of their time inside.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
• At a certain point the hullabaloo began to die down and then ceased.
  — SI.com, 15 Feb. 2018

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cease

2 of 2 noun

• The sides have largely observed a cease-fire since the 2014 war — their third in a decade.
  — Fares Akram and Josef Federman, Houston Chronicle, 14 May 2018
• Were the Taliban breaking the agreement for a cease-fire?
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• Any deal is likely to require a cease-fire along the route.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
• Even amid the cease-fire, the sense of loss is unmistakable.
  — Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2017
• But a cease-fire is not yet part of the deal, nor is a power-sharing plan.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2019
• Israel and Hamas have agreed to a cease-fire in their bloody 11-day conflict.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 21 May 2021
• Even so, sooner or later, the war will end in a cease-fire or armistice.
  — Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• By the time of the a cease-fire was signed the following year, Maryinka had been shattered.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 21 May 2022
• Once the cease-fire was signed, he was released with other POWs.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2018
• The proposal calls for a cease-fire to begin with hours of the deal signing.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
• Three failed cease-fires in as many weeks make the future of the new armistice uncertain.
  — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2020
• The Nagorno-Karabakh issue was not resolved by the 1994 cease-fire, which brought fighting to a halt.
  — David Faris, The Week, 15 Sep. 2022
• The two countries have been discussing terms for a cease fire, but there’s not been much progress.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Mar. 2022
• Putin has called for a cease-fire but has refused to get involved.
  — TheWeek, 25 Oct. 2020
• The two sides discussed a 24-hour cease-fire but made no progress, Kuleba said.
  — Evgeniy Maloletka, ajc, 11 Mar. 2022
• Muhammed Azim, 27, was killed just days before the Eid cease-fire.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2020
• Kuleba said the two sides discussed a 24-hour cease-fire but did not make progress.
  — Vgeniy Maloletka, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• Past rounds of peace talks and cease-fire agreements have faltered.
  — Matthew Lee, ajc, 25 Jan. 2021
• An overlapping Taliban cease-fire was for the three days of Eid.
  — Zabihullah Ghazi and Mujib Mashal, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2018
• Weary of the attacks, the government agreed to a cease-fire in November 2020.
  — Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
• Many of those left behind are glad for the November cease fire.
  — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• There was little hope, though, that a cease-fire would happen.
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
• Hamas has grown increasingly angry over the lack of progress in the cease-fire talks.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, ajc, 29 Aug. 2021
• Let all the tumult within me cease, Lord, enfold me in your peace.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 12 Oct. 2022
• Turkey and Russia agreed to a cease-fire in Idlib province last week.
  — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2020
• By the time a cease-fire was signed the following year, Maryinka had been shattered.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
• There have been calls for a cease-fire if peace talks in Doha are to continue.
  — NBC News, 21 Nov. 2020
• The first point, the cease-fire, has already been implemented.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2022
• The truce, which went into effect on April 2, is the first nationwide cease-fire in Yemen in six years.
  — Ahmed Al-Haj and Samy Magdy, ajc, 24 Apr. 2022
• The cease-fire, which took effect Sunday, was brokered by Egypt.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2022

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