Use ceased in a sentence
Sentences ending with ceased
- And after a while the convulsive shudders that shook her gradually ceased. [9]
- But gradually her weeping ceased. [9]
- The storm continued until toward midnight, then ceased. [5]
- The bird listened to her singing, bending his little head with its waving plumes, wisely and inquisitively from side to side, and flew away directly she ceased. [10]
- Prospect of revival there was none; hope of it ceased. [5]
- All at once there came a wide peace and clearing, and the everlasting jar and movement ceased. [11]
- I had stopped the wheels, and there my authority and responsibility ceased. [5]
- And when on the threshold of the drawing-room she paused, the conversation suddenly ceased. [9]
- At that moment the knocking ceased. [12]
- He wondered if the internal bleeding had ceased. [13]
Short sentences using ceased
- The windlass ceased to turn. [4]
- Wrangle had ceased to gain. [13]
- I've ceased to think. [9]
- The buzz of study ceased. [5]
- The shouts and hootings ceased. [11]
- Conversation ceased at her entrance. [9]
- The voices had ceased. [9]
- Now one snore ceased. [5]
- Presently all motion ceased. [11]
- Her talk never ceased. [11]
Sentences containing ceased two or more times
- At the expiration of a week this amusement ceased to be such for I ceased to be talked of. [4]
- He had been little heard of up to that time, but since then we have never ceased to hear of him; we have never ceased to hear of him at stated, unfailing intervals. [5]
- If when he ceased to be true he had likewise ceased to love, if the fickle Fortunatus had wearied of his sweetheart--then I could far more easily forgive. [10]
More example sentences with the word ceased in them
- If you are, you will probably soon find that we have ceased to be sectional, for we shall get votes in your section this very year. [7]
- You remember, do you not, that the hero of that book sacrifices himself for the lady who adores him, but whom he has ceased to adore? [9]
- That was ominous, yet she ceased not to hope, and thought: "If he were dead, I should see his corpse. [10]
- He did not yet despair of reconciliation with Harriet, nor had he ceased to love her. [5]
- Kitty ceased her work for an instant and, looking away from him into the distance, said: "Three people said those same words to me all in one day a thousand years ago. [11]
- These victims, together with the captains and owners, presently ceased to laugh altogether, and began to rage about the revenge they would take when the passing business 'spurt' was over. [5]
- He was seized with such violent terror that he stood as if spellbound, the goat slipped from his shoulders, and he felt as if his heart had ceased to beat. [10]
- Now they rejoiced with Dion, and wanted to send at once for their host and future son-in-law, who was in the city attending a meeting of the Ephebi, although he had ceased some time ago to be a member of their company. [10]
- Pentaur ceased speaking with a deep sigh, and for a minute not a scholar moved. [10]
- For the sleeper whose dream here on earth he, Charles, had beautified in so many ways, a happy waking had long since followed in the land for which she had never ceased to yearn. [10]
- The rain had wholly ceased, and seemed to have exhausted itself here in the afternoon. [10]
- To the dead, who had ceased to be dangerous, he was ready to show an excess of magnanimity. [10]
- Even as he whistled Meyerbeer, riding towards Tralee, his eyes had a look of one who was trying to see into things; and his lips, when the whistling ceased, had a cheerful pucker which seemed to show that he had seen what he wanted. [11]
- His bloodless face, which had long ceased to smile, was now the very home of smiles. [10]
- In the hour when he had ceased to desire exit by breaking through the wall and not by the predestined door, the reply of Destiny to him had been: "It is not for you to choose. [11]
- When the sticks were in his hand, all trembling ceased, and his hands became steady. [11]
- Boris and Natasha were at the other window and ceased talking when Vera entered. [2]
- However, even inquests went out of vogue at last, and ceased to torture Tom's conscience. [5]
- Hereupon I ceased weeping and bid my heart take fresh courage, and went on, still much moved: "It is nought but a woman's shameless craft that troubles me so sorely. [10]
- When they ceased we knew she was in heaven, notwithstanding the excommunication; and we were glad of her death and not sorry that we had brought it about. [5]
- Nay, or ever we had ceased he had taken his foot from the stag's neck, and at length we walked with him back to the forest lodge, half amused, yet half grieved, with the mocking words he tormented us with. [10]
- Once a cement water-pipe under ground at Stawell began to gradually reduce its output, and finally ceased altogether to deliver water. [5]
- The death of Washington's body-servant has ceased to be a novelty; it's charm is gone; the people are tired of it; let it cease. [5]
- Not a word was spoken, not a hand moved, when he ceased speaking. [10]
- At last he was satisfied that time had ceased and eternity begun; he began to doze, in spite of himself; the clock chimed eleven, but he did not hear it. [5]
- The device, however, was never used, and Orlando ceased giggling suddenly, for chancing to glance up he saw a face at a window, pale, exquisite, delicate, with eyes that stared and stared at him as though he were a creature from some other world. [11]
- Just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and Kutuzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. [2]
- No damning evidence was discovered on his person, for the pistol had long since ceased to be a firearm. [9]
- When the slow voice ceased, and the room became still, she lay quiet for a moment, letting the new thing find secure lodgment in her thought; then, suddenly, she raised herself and threw her arms round her mother in a passion of affection. [11]
- After the French victory at Borodino there was no general engagement nor any that were at all serious, yet the French army ceased to exist. [2]
- Myrtle Hazard waited until the steps of Master Byles Gridley had ceased to be heard, as he walked in his emphatic way through the long entry of the old mansion. [6]
- It was dark: Uarda ceased weeping and said to the surgeon: "Can it be possible that he has gone into the city to borrow the great sum of money that thou--or thy temple--demanded for thy medicine? [10]
- Confound you, Joe Twichell and I roamed about Bermuda day and night and never ceased to gabble and enjoy. [5]
- She ceased and turned pale, for her lover's face had undergone a change that terrified her. [10]
- Aleck saw how true they were, and their influence was electric; her tears ceased to flow, and her great spirit rose to its full stature again. [5]
- The sound of trotting horses had ceased, and there was silence broken only by a faint, dry pattering of cottonwood leaves in the soft night wind. [13]
- Perhaps then the tormenting thought that blighted his life, the dread that in the prison he had ceased to be an artist, and had lost all his faculty was nothing more than a mad delusion! [10]
- But their biting tongues had ceased to mock or jest. [10]
- They had been told that fashion had ceased to patronize it, and that its old-time character was gone. [4]
- Presently she ceased to tremble, and he drew her to the window. [9]
- He had ceased to think or care about Fortune. [9]
- Prince Andrew ran to the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. [2]
- Presently he ceased to talk, and rode in silence for many minutes. [9]
- As she tried to take the measure of the situation and plan what she would do, the noise of the music suddenly ceased, and she heard a voice, though low in tone, give some sort of command. [11]
- He had ceased to show his face in daylight, now, for a reporter knows everybody, rich and poor, high and low, and cannot well avoid familiar faces in the broad light of day. [5]
- The troop ceased to shiver, and their spirits began to improve. [5]
- He goes on to say that the present "demands of the drama pleasures and emotions that can no longer be supplied by the inanimate representation of a world that has ceased to exist. [4]
- Truth compels me to say that she had long ceased to be a factor in my life. [9]
- When the summons to Ratisbon had reached him in Brussels, he had been joyously ready to obey it--nay, he had felt it a great happiness to see again the beloved place for which he had never ceased to long. [10]
- It had ceased to play before Stafford entered the room, but, strangely enough, it began again as he said over the dead body, "He did not die by his own hand. [11]
- Hermon had ceased to notice her; he had just gone to his gray-haired host with the entreaty that he would give him a ship for the voyage to Tennis, where Myrtilus would need his assistance. [10]
- This cry pierced to my heart, even mine; and it brought the color to Ann's face, which had long ceased to be pale. [10]
- I have ceased to marvel how it was done. [9]
- Stephen had learned to love the Judge, and he had never ceased to be grateful to him for a knowledge of that man who had had the most influence upon his life, --Abraham Lincoln. [9]
- He never ceased to hope until the stake had found its way into the other man's pocket. [9]
- When he came to himself after being wounded and the flower of eternal, unfettered love had instantly unfolded itself in his soul as if freed from the bondage of life that had restrained it, he no longer feared death and ceased to think about it. [2]
- Hippias had ceased to flout and dally. [10]
- It is foolish to dream, and I had long since ceased to do so. [11]
- She had ceased to cry out: she was as one grown numb under torture; occasionally a convulsive shudder shook her. [9]
- If she ceased to care for life, she could allow death to take her, just as we dream ourselves asleep. [10]
- Natasha's grief began to be overlaid by the impressions of daily life, it ceased to press so painfully on her heart, it gradually faded into the past, and she began to recover physically. [2]
- It has ceased to be fashionable to bathe at Newport. [4]
- They had ceased to be factors in the equation; they were 'non est' in the postmortem history of John Grier. [11]
- But it ceased to be a dream, and they were taken back into the hard, practical world, when, as they turned the corner, Irene pointed out her favorite sign: Silas Lapham, mineral paint. [4]
- He had ceased to ask questions of anyone, since they brought him only insult instead of information. [5]
- It was not till about that time that citizens' wives ceased to wear white knit woolen caps, and three-square Minever caps with peaks. [4]
- Whoever knows that thought and feeling end with life will not fear death; for, no matter how many dear and precious things the dead have left here below, their yearning for them has ceased with life. [10]
- She was, at this moment, the universe to him; and all else--the pursuers at his heels, his father, his sister, pretty Ino, to whom he had vowed his love only the night before--had ceased to exist for him. [10]
- Fully possessed by this dream of the future, he had long ceased to gaze at the glories of the sunset and was sitting with eyes fixed on the ground. [10]
- I ceased to think of her in everything I did, as was the case in Keilhau. [10]
- As soon as they saw him their talking and laughing ceased, and they stopped and stood still, gazing at him with strong curiosity; they presently began to whisper together, then they approached nearer, and stopped again to gaze and whisper. [5]
- Mr. Bentley sat there; and the woman, whose tears had ceased to flow, was looking up into his face. [9]
- But just then there whistled through the larrup of sound a clear voice callin', gentle and coaxin', yet commandin' too; and the spears dropped, and the pounding of horsehoofs ceased, and then the army marched away; far away; iver so far away, into--" "Into Heaven! [11]
- The next moment there were several sharp raps at the door; John Canty ceased from snoring and said-- "Who knocketh? [5]
- When she ceased, there was not a sound save of some woman gently sobbing. [11]
- The music ceased, there came feminine laughter across the water, then Nick's voice, in French that dared everything:-- "Go away and amuse yourselves at the dance. [9]
- He glanced at the woman, who had ceased crying, and stood surveying the wreckage with the calmness, the philosophic nonchalance of a class that comes to look upon misfortune as inevitable. [9]
- The music in the towers might have ceased, so completely was it drowned by the tumult in the amphitheatre. [10]
- The desire of the thing wasted them, and they forgot to eat and ceased to talk among themselves. [11]
- The fury of the tempest had ceased, but the sky was still obscured by clouds. [10]
- The piano and the song ceased abruptly, with a bang. [9]
- Then I wore the skins of wild animals, and now I do the same, just the same; with what we call more taste perhaps, because we have ceased to see the beauty in the natural thing. [11]
- The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the sacrament. [2]
- For a moment the roar and yelling ceased, and then began again, but in a much milder form. [10]
- Day was breaking, the rain had ceased, and the clouds were dispersing. [2]
- For she was the quintessence of that feminine product of our country at which Europe has never ceased to wonder, and to give her history would no more account for her than the process of manufacture explains the most delicate of scents. [9]
- The interests of the persons in her novels supplied the lack of interest in her own life; and Memory and Imagination found their appropriate work, and ceased to prey upon her vitals. [14]
- The president of the Northeastern used a locomotive as long as possible, but when it ceased to be able to haul a train up-grade, he sent it to the scrap-heap. [9]
- The magic of the night fell on the souls of the nuns; they ceased prattling; but when Sister Martha, the nightingale of the sisterhood, began to sing a hymn the others followed her example. [10]
- In my youth the monarchs of England had ceased to touch for the evil, but there was no occasion for this diffidence: they could have cured it forty-nine times in fifty. [5]
- All at once the merriment ceased, and looking forward we saw that Tom had leaped from his saddle and was bending over something in the snow. [9]
- The Secretary of the Interior reports as follows in regard to the public lands: "The public lands have ceased to be a source of revenue. [7]
- The uproar among the heathen grew louder and louder; fragments of stone and wood came flying towards the spot where the Bishop and officials were standing; but, suddenly, the tumult ceased, and, as if by a miracle, there was silence--perfect silence--in the temple. [10]
- I can imagine the heart retaining much tenderness and sympathy with suffering when the soul itself has ceased to struggle for the higher life, when the mind has lost, in regard to life, the final discrimination of what is right and wrong. [4]
- Every evening, when the haymakers put up their scythes, the mill-wheel stopped turning, and the Angelus ceased, the men marched away into the hills, where the ardent soldier of fortune had pitched his camp. [11]
- The cries from the gates ceased. [2]
- Toward three o'clock the French attacks ceased. [2]
- At last on the fourth day she ceased to weep and would answer our questions in a low voice, as if resigned; but spent the greater part of every day sitting silently at her wheel. [10]
- The motion of the engines had ceased, the puffing of the escaping steam was stilled, and the enveloping silence closed upon us, and such silence it was! [5]
- He suspected that the doctors were concealing it in his ordinary medicines and in his water--so he ceased from putting either to his lips. [5]
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