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.
  • And all shows and jams ceased to exist.
    — Des Moines Register, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The fighting has not yet ceased.
    — Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
  • That means all parties have to cease fire and put down their weapons.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The plot didn't come to fruition, but the tensions didn't cease.
    — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Time ceases to exist in a place like this.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Guests who fail to comply will be asked to cease smoking.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Guests who fail to comply will be asked to cease smoking.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Guests who fail to comply will be asked to cease smoking.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Guests who fail to comply will be asked to cease smoking.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Guests who fail to comply will be asked to cease smoking.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Guests who fail to comply will be asked to cease smoking.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Guests who fail to comply will be asked to cease smoking.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Guests who fail to comply will be asked to cease smoking.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Their tactics had long ceased to surprise me.
    — Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Vue was also asked to cease the breaks, but no fines were issued.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Then maybe the brain flatulence will cease and the fools won’t try.
    — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Last summer, getting dressed ceased to mean putting on clothes.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The outside world ceased to exist.
    — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • Walk by the ocean; hike through the mountains; never cease to be in awe of both.
    — Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2016
  • When Say Cheese launched, the golden age of blogs had ceased.
    — Jeff Weiss, latimes.com, 4 July 2018
  • Late-night shows ceased once the writers strike began in May.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The loss of oxygen that caused his brain and heart to cease functioning.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 Apr. 2021
  • That plan was in the works before the cease-and-desist letters.
    — Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Those sites may cease to emit carbon, but the living bog will not return.
    — William Atkins, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
  • The partnership has since ceased.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Once the prisoner ceases his danse macabre, the crowd goes wild.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Cannot the judge issue a cease-and-desist order?
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025

cease

2 of 2 noun
  • There has been no cease fire and no peace talks.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Putin has called for a cease-fire but has refused to get involved.
    — TheWeek, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Past rounds of peace talks and cease-fire agreements have faltered.
    — Matthew Lee, ajc, 25 Jan. 2021
  • There was little hope, though, that a cease-fire would happen.
    — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Even so, sooner or later, the war will end in a cease-fire or armistice.
    — Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 19 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The current cease fire in Gaza has given the world hope that the war will end.
    — Time, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Three failed cease-fires in as many weeks make the future of the new armistice uncertain.
    — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2020
  • More than two weeks after the cease-fire, life has returned; even beach cafes have reopened.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2021
  • Kuleba said the two sides discussed a 24-hour cease-fire but did not make progress.
    — Vgeniy Maloletka, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Many of those left behind are glad for the November cease fire.
    — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Egypt and Qatar are trying to shore up an informal cease-fire.
    — Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The proposal calls for a cease-fire to begin with hours of the deal signing.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Let all the tumult within me cease, Lord, enfold me in your peace.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Oil shipments from Venezuela cease to Cuba.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • But tear gas was again fired soon after, breaking the momentary cease fire.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2019
  • There have been calls for a cease-fire if peace talks in Doha are to continue.
    — NBC News, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Hamas has grown increasingly angry over the lack of progress in the cease-fire talks.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, ajc, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Guterres hopes that a cease-fire will be agreed soon, Dujarric said.
    — NBC News, 29 Apr. 2019
  • Pump prices have remained high this week, despite a tentative cease fire.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Israel and Hamas have agreed to a cease-fire in their bloody 11-day conflict.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 21 May 2021
  • At what point in the rebuild does a rebuild cease to be a rebuild and a structure is just plain built?
    — Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The cease-fire left the two armies facing each other along a front line, barely a few hundred yards apart.
    — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The two sides discussed a 24-hour cease-fire but made no progress, Kuleba said.
    — Evgeniy Maloletka, ajc, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The first point, the cease-fire, has already been implemented.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2022
  • And the mother felt the thing that had been vibrating in her for so long cease entirely.
    — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 9 July 2017
  • At what point does a band cease to exist and become something else entirely?
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2026
  • At least one Housewife seemed to be a little more skeptical of their cease fire.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • An overlapping Taliban cease-fire was for the three days of Eid.
    — Zabihullah Ghazi and Mujib Mashal, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2018

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