Sentence Examples

1. As she walked, she hugged herself, which did little to cease her violent shaking.
2. Sink deeper into the black chasm where all thoughts end and where feelings cease to be.
3. Fogg choose to make him, Passepartout, a present of Kiouni, he would be very much embarrassed and these thoughts did not cease worrying him for a long time.
4. I have never been a thief, my lord duke, nor do I mean to be so long as I live, if God cease not to have me in his keeping.
5. Exhausted as he was from everything that had happened, sleep had eluded him, his mind too alternately occupied by memories of what they had shared and the creeping sense of dread that would not cease to insinuate itself in his mind.
6. Its master spoke to it gently, and then harshly, and then angrily but it would neither come nor cease to make a noise.
7. Therefore cease to regard that sea, and give your whole attention to the mass of houses that lie beneath us.
8. The night was, as has been said, dark, and they had happened to reach a spot in among some tall trees, whose leaves stirred by a gentle breeze made a low ominous sound so that, what with the solitude, the place, the darkness, the noise of the water, and the rustling of the leaves, everything inspired awe and dread more especially as they perceived that the strokes did not cease, nor the wind lull, nor morning approach to all which might be added their ignorance as to where they were.
9. They did not cease, however, importuning me with questions as to what I intended to do with all this apparatus, and expressed much dissatisfaction at the terrible labor I made them undergo.
10. At what point would stolen moments cease to be enough to satisfy her?