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Example sentences for "ceases"

Lexicographically close words:
ceanothus; cease; ceased; ceaseless; ceaselessly; ceaseth; ceasing; ceasse; ceassed; ceci
  1. The moment this, or any other conception, ceases to be useful for these purposes, away with it to the four winds; we care not what becomes of it!

  2. As Polly's other beau comes in, we ceases this refrain.

  3. Buhtan puts it on, and never ceases regarding his changed appearance.

  4. The illumined and illuminating sun, when it ceases to shine in the dark night, becomes devoid of sight, devoid of intelligence, and stupid.

  5. The tortoise is also found in connection with frogs in a fable of Abstemius; the tortoise envies the frogs, who can move rapidly, but ceases to complain when it sees them become the prey of the eel.

  6. When it ceases to be so, then the Rys will vanish from the world, and be as stubble of the field ready for the burning.

  7. It was seven days since he first heard it in the market-place, and in that seven days he had realized that nothing in this world which has ever been, really ceases to be.

  8. Even the loss of God's great gift of sight ceases to become a burden or affliction in comparison with the indescribable joy of life snatched from death.

  9. I have heard people say that when a person is drowning, after the first frantic struggles are over, a delightful sensation of peacefulness comes over him, and he ceases to desire to help himself.

  10. You enter by a ladder of rope, with wooden steps, about thirty feet from the bottom, where the mason-work ceases to be solid, and admits of round apartments.

  11. Wealth is no doubt strength in a country, while all is quiet and governed by law, but on any altercation or internal commotion, it ceases to be strength, and is only the means of tempting the strong to plunder the possessors.

  12. Walter Scott, Poet Laureate, ceases to be the Walter Scott of the Lay, Marmion, etc.

  13. It is a mistake to suppose that the hilly country ceases here, on the contrary, it crosses the Jhilun.

  14. The jungle surrounding the springs ceases abruptly, the ground around, and among them, being covered with stunted grass and a few small herbaceous plants.

  15. The Noa Dihing here ceases to be navigable even for small canoes.

  16. Next to it in abundance is Rhododendron majus, now in full flower, and forming a beautiful object, Rhododendron minus ceases with the barrener tracts.

  17. I should mention that this ceases first to the west, in which direction shrubs encroach on it.

  18. Butea suffruticosa is very common about Nurtung, but ceases soon after leaving its environs.

  19. Panica varia, and Rottboellia which ceases above this.

  20. The colour ceases to exist if I shut my eyes, the sensation of hardness ceases to exist if I remove my arm from contact with the table, the sound ceases to exist if I cease to rap the table with my knuckles.

  21. It is true that this is partly accounted for by the fact that, as soon as definite knowledge concerning any subject becomes possible, this subject ceases to be called philosophy, and becomes a separate science.

  22. A dispensation does not cease if the motive ceases entirely and certainly, but the effect of the dispensation is indivisible--that is, removing the entire obligation once for all.

  23. Since a vow is a private law, it may cease, just as a law ceases in certain cases (see 500 sqq.

  24. Balbus ceases to pray for health, because he thinks it is not God's will to grant that request.

  25. There are, therefore, two ways in which a vow ceases or ceases to oblige.

  26. As to exemption from Church laws note: (a) he who ceases to be subject to the law (e.

  27. A dispensation in the wide sense is granted when the subject-matter of the law is taken away by the legislator himself or by another, so that it ceases to be comprehended under the law, although the obligation of the law still remains.

  28. The obligation of restitution for defamation also ceases when reputation has been recovered without any act on the part of the defamer; for it is clear that one is not bound to give back that which is already had.

  29. Manifestly, if the arguments are all satisfactorily answered by the opposite side, the judgment based on them ceases to retain the appearance of truth.

  30. The shore-boats are manned with ill-miened youngsters, whose clamour never ceases from ship-side to landing-stage.

  31. But the view will no longer close with successive walls of mountain; the road ceases winding up the slopes of successive outworks; every vertical line, each deep vaulting relaxes and disappears.

  32. It is placed on the extreme foot of Ararat, exactly on the line where all inclination ceases and the floor of the plain begins.

  33. The civilization to which it belongs becomes old and languid, and its creative power ceases like the imperceptible sinking of a flood.

  34. I made an accidental hit with the Clockmaker: when he ceases to speak, I shall cease to write.

  35. Fashion spreads many tables here, but talent is always found seated at the best, if it thinks proper to comply with certain usages, without which, even genius ceases to be attractive.

  36. With every wife the relationship ceases every time" (127.

  37. The well-trained animal sees what is wanted; and, crouching down by its master's feet, ceases making demonstration.

  38. All at once, the hoof-stroke ceases to be heard, and stillness reigns around.

  39. Harkness--for it is he--ceases tugging upon his rein, and permits his horse to stand still.

  40. We pause in mute terror; we gaze upon the ugly spectre, so imperfectly beheld; the net ceases to tremble, and the wily enemy draws gently back into her nook.

  41. There ceases the likeness and begins the contrast: the blunt simplicity of Peter, the gorgeous magnificence of Louis; the sternness of a legislator for barbarians, the clemency of an idol of courtiers.

  42. It is not till he has acquired several other pieces that he ceases to regard them as mere items in the decoration of his room, and gives them a little table, or a tray of a cabinet, all to themselves.

  43. Whereas in the grate even a quite little fire never ceases to be amusing and inspiring until you let it out.

  44. Freedom must ever be the greatest of blessings; but it ceases to be a distinction, in proportion as other nations become free.

  45. This formation, mostly of limestone, ceases at, or immediately before reaching, the Finke, and then a formation of heavy red sandhills begins.

  46. If that is called persecution, the word ceases to have any meaning.

  47. Is it a fact that a child's nature is changed by water and words--or that the bread when it is broken ceases to be bread?

  48. Assyrian-Babylonian history here ceases and is merged into Persian.

  49. He ceases to bewail his position at Erech and accepts his destiny with calmness.

  50. During her sojourn in the nether regions all fertility ceases on the earth, to be resumed only when she returns as the joyful bride of the springtide sun.

  51. When one of the other elements is fastened upon by fire, and is cut by the sharpness of its angles and sides, it coalesces with the fire, and then ceases to be cut by them any longer.

  52. I love thee as the best part of my life, and with thy life ceases mine: it is my heart that my shield guards when it covers the breast of Harold.

  53. Hundreds of thousands at home peruse it before it is a week old--as many abroad ere the moon has thrice renewed her horns; and the Series ceases not--regular as the Seasons that make up the perfect year.

  54. But to feel the full power of Glen Etive you must walk up it till it ceases to be a glen.

  55. Nor when such feeling ceases so entirely to possess, and so deeply to affect us, does the softened and subdued charm of the scene before us depend less on the expanse of the "diffusion of water.

  56. The noisy world ceases to be, and the tranquil heart, delighted with the sweet seclusion, breathes, "Oh!

  57. When he tells it to a second person, a second to a third, a third to a fourth, and so on, it ceases to be a revelation to all those persons.

  58. When avarice has an object it ceases to be a vice; it becomes a means of virtue; its privations are a perpetual offering; it has the grandeur of an intention beneath its meannesses.

  59. Science may some day find the reason of this peculiarity, which ceases in the adjoining province of Normandy.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ceases" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.