cease - use in sentences

Object

  • publication: The legal action that followed forced The Masses to cease publication.
  • firing: His way led straight into the woods and through the midst of the Samoans, who had but now ceased firing.
  • employment: At the time Mr XXX ceased employment on 18 May 1998 the 1997 regulations were in force.
  • operation: Please note that the Virtual Hospital ceased operations in January 2006.
  • production: The estate's copper mine ceased production in 1807.

Modifying Another Word

  • forthwith: In either case, the group must forthwith cease to use the name of Quest.
  • thereupon: If you are prevented from traveling as a result, our responsibility for your holiday thereupon ceases.
  • never: Wonders never cease Wayne actually played a request for me.

Infinitive complement

  • amaze: The power of the subconscious mind never ceases to amaze me.
  • exist: Small independent farmers would cease to exist in the way we know them.
  • operate: Due to circumstances beyond our control airlines may cease to operate on certain routes which may have an effect upon the holiday price.
  • apply: This ceases to apply once the document has been read to or by the Court, or referred to in open Court.
  • hold: An advisor's co-option to Council will expire three years after their appointment or earlier if they cease to hold membership of the Society.
  • occupy: The claimant landlord sought possession against a statutory tenant on the ground that he had ceased to occupy.

Preposition: in

  • 1960s: Steamer traffic ceased in the 1960s, with the PS Embassy making a final call on 24th September 1966.

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