Sample Sentences for
cease
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    They sent a cease and desist letter to stop the noise.
    cease = discontinue or stop
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    Jem explained that if he did, the snowman would become muddy and cease to be a snowman.  (source)
    cease = discontinue
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    I said to myself, Will wonders never cease?  (source)
    cease = stop
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    The steady background drone of cicadas and frogs had ceased abruptly.  (source)
    ceased = stopped
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    It seems that the worries and wants of a young boy never cease.  (source)
    cease = end (discontinue)
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    We didn't get lost amid the sprawl of tall buildings, the stream of anonymous masses, the ceaseless din of traffic.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaseless means without and reverses the meaning of cease. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
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    The chemical reaction occurs at the time the drowning victim is ceasing to breathe.†  (source)
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    Conversation abruptly ceases.  (source)
    ceases = stops
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    Beyond lay the sea, misty and purple, with its haunting, unceasing murmur.  (source)
    unceasing = never stopping
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unceasing means not and reverses the meaning of ceasing. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I had been smiling ceaselessly since he came through the door.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaselessly means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
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    Truly, meseemeth, said Tristram, that he putteth himself in great pain, for he never ceaseth.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She ceaseth" in older English, today we say "She ceases."
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    It was the ceaselessness of the work which tried her so severely, and began to make her wish that she had never some to Flintcomb-Ash.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    When the simum ceased to blow, everyone looked to the place where the boy had been.  (source)
    ceased = discontinued (stopped)
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