Leave, cease from, desist from, refrain from, leave off, make an end of.
For punishments are inflicted as medicines, that men being deterred thereby may desist from sin.
Further, it is always lawful to desist from committing a sin.
Nor is this passive scandal a reason why the other person should desist from borrowing if he is in need, since this passive scandal arises not from weakness or ignorance but from malice.
Conflict arises when the man deems evils to be sins and resolves to desist from them.
A man who has taken pleasure in defrauding and deceiving sees and inwardly acknowledges it to be sin and resolves to desist from it; with this a battle begins of his internal with the external.
When he advances farther and resolves to desist from evils, he is at the second step in reformation and is out of hell but not yet in heaven; this he beholds above him.
Under the year 1249 the Annals mention a defeat which the Irish suffered at Athenry, which they attribute to their refusal to desist from warfare on Lady Day, the English having asked a truce in honour of the Blessed Virgin.
The castle was deemed almost impregnable from its situation; and every argument was used with Sir George Carew to induce him to desist from attacking it.
To desist from; to forbear; to stop; as, to leave off work at six o'clock.
To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desist from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
