לדלג לתוכן הראשי

noun

cease

CEFR B2

an end or halt to something that has been going on

In a sentence

Six example sentences with cease, each labelled with its topic.

  • The drummers played without cease from sunset until dawn, and the dancers in the square never once sat down.

    Music

  • Rain fell without cease for nine days, and the river climbed over the levee by Thursday morning.

    Environment

  • The ward monitors beeped without cease through the night shift, and the resident stopped hearing them entirely by morning.

    Medicine

  • The notifications arrived without cease during the tournament, and he finally switched the phone off to finish the match.

    Gaming

  • The server logs scrolled without cease through the outage, and the team read them for an hour before finding the error.

    Technology

  • The ferry's engine throbbed without cease through the night crossing, and nobody in the cabin slept until dawn.

    Travel

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