cease
verb (used without object)
to stop; discontinue.
were ceasing
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past progressiveof cease.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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A verdict from Basquiat’s estate is no longer possible: its authentication committee disbanded in 2012, at a time when many artists’ estates were ceasing to authenticate artwork because of costly litigation.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2022
He saw that they were ceasing to care.
From The City and the World and Other Stories by Francis Clement Kelley
Just as the sounds of the cracking bushes were ceasing, however, the voice of the father was again heard.
From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
Under the magic of his words, already they were ceasing to regard her as an outcast.
From The Hickory Limb by Rose Cecil O'Neill
They were ceasing in fact to be an intellectual class at all.
From History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by John Richard Green
