All 7 Uses of
cease
in
The Road by McCarthy
- Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease.†
- The snow fell nor did it cease to fall.†
- The thunder trundled away to the north and ceased and there was just the rain.†
- By dark the rain had ceased and they opened the hatch and began to carry boxes and parcels and plastic bags across the wet yard to the shed and to pack the cart.†
- In the night the rain ceased and he woke and lay listening.
*ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The fire had died, the rain had ceased.†
- The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be.†
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue