Example Sentences

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But there are many loose threads raised by this case and there are no signs that Prince Harry will desist from pulling on them to see what unravels.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2023

"I will desist at once, if they be disagreeable."

From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony

"Make the dowry heavy to them and they will desist."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I never will desist from this blessed work.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

So I will desist for the present, and resume this to-morrow on the top of a kopje.

From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by Ross, P. T.