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Definition
to stop or discontinue
- And then as quickly as the rain had started, it ceased.Chapter Ten (92% in)
- Ruth sat almost motionless, right leg crossed over left, but her foot jiggled ceaselessly.Chapter Ten (85% in)
- He asked ceaseless questions about the "fake knee," and my father warmed to him.Chapter Thirteen (9% in)
- When the noise ceased her ears rang for a second, and in that second she saw something flicker across Ray's eyes.Chapter Sixteen (11% in)
- I wondered if Lindsey noticed that when she and Samuel began to unzip their leathers the lightning stopped and the rumble in the throat of God—that scary thunder—ceased.Chapter Seventeen (37% in)
- It never ceased to hurt.Chapter Eighteen (68% in)
- But though she was, by definition, a mother, she had at some point ceased to be one too.Chapter Nineteen (46% in)
There are no more uses of "cease" in The Lovely Bones.
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