ceaseless

adjective

cease·​less ˈsēs-ləs How to pronounce ceaseless (audio)
: continuing without cease : constant
ceaseless efforts
ceaselessly adverb
ceaselessness noun

Examples of ceaseless in a Sentence

her ceaseless efforts to build and improve the business there has been ceaseless rain for three days
Recent Examples on the Web As the supply chain began fraying, urban reality from Minneapolis to Milan was dominated by the ceaseless wailing of ambulances hauling those stricken with Covid-19 to hospitals, where people were dying on gurneys stashed in corridors, the rooms overflowing, the supply of ventilators exhausted. Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 2 June 2024 Slowly, the ceaseless chaos of the Dynamite Club began to elicit a federal response. Steven Johnson, New York Times, 17 May 2024 But many Americans might not be thinking of the rarity of the cicada co-emergence and instead are dreading the ceaseless high-pitched buzz of trillions of insects. Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024 The first in a triptych of new releases that includes a duo with the guitarist Marisa Anderson and the return of Dirty Three after a dozen years, White’s brief, dense record underscores what has forever driven his singular approach: a ceaseless curiosity about what’s left to learn. Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ceaseless 

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Word History

First Known Use

1576, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of ceaseless was in 1576

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“Ceaseless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ceaseless. Accessed 15 Jun. 2024.

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ceaseless

adjective
cease·​less ˈsēs-ləs How to pronounce ceaseless (audio)
ceaselessly adverb
ceaselessness noun

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