Example Sentences

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Another four a week are ceasing to be played because of a lack of maintenance.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

Given these realities, we are ceasing negotiations and moving forward on alternatives for the redevelopment of Howard Terminal.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023

“The courts are ceasing to protect human rights. They are disassociating from previously held positions,” Balsells said.

From Washington Times • May 16, 2019

A problem that may be harder to solve is that people really are ceasing to have children.

From US News • Sep. 22, 2016

The great provincial towns and cities of France, for example, are ceasing to be dependent, as they formerly were, upon the press of Paris for their news and views of which passes in the capital.

From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by Hurlbert, William Henry