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How to use cessation in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Cessation means a ceasing or discontinuance, for example of an action, whether temporary or final. Example: “He’s been on the smoking cessation wagon for two weeks now.”

Examples of cessation by meaning

nounA ceasing or discontinuance, for example of an action, whether temporary or final.

  • With the cessation of hostilities, the military traffic declined considerably, although at least two years will be required to remove the many thousands of tons of explosives still stored at the depot.1947 January and February, “Wartime Traffic at Tanfield, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 47

More sentences with cessation

  • He’s been on the smoking cessation wagon for two weeks now.From the entry on the wagon
  • They both opposed an eventual imposition of anti-dumping measures as they considered that it could lead to a cessation of imports of the product concerned from the PRC79.From the entry eventual
  • Accordingly, there is the tendency of the power stroke to overdrift the cessation of the travel signal.1954, Instruments and Control Systems - Volume 27, page 1465. From the entry overdrift
  • Flay or of himself save for the sudden cessation of their purring.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan. From the entry pullulation
  • Delighted with this promenade, little Edith bubbled her joy without cessation.1934, Inez Haynes Gillmore, Strange Harvest, page 417. From the entry bubble
  • He regards it as a smoking cessation aid.2024 February 12, John Semley, “Meet the Zynfluencers: how nicotine pouches ignited a new culture war”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry Zynning
  • Thus "bardo" includes the gap between the cessation of one moment of thought and the arising of the next moment.2015, Evan Thompson, “Dying: What Happens when We Die?”, in Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation…. From the entry bardo
  • In presenting an absential conception of liberation as strictly limited to the cessation of experience, the Mīmāmsakas face a problem.2013, Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge: Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and…. From the entry absential
  • One (1) patient demonstrated recovery, remission, and subsequent rerecovery, which coincided with the commencement, cessation, and retreatment with propranolol.2006 May, Andrew Tatham, Adrian Macfarlane, “The use of propranolol to treat central serous chorioretinopathy: an evaluation by serial…. From the entry rerecovery
  • After the cessation of standard Roman wares and local hand-made types early in the fifth century two Grubenhäuser were built.1970, Society of Antiquaries of London (contributor), The Antiquaries Journal, volume 50, page 85. From the entry hand-made
  • If indeed smokers sequence through more biologic therapies, these findings may bring about significant practice changes focused on smoking cessation earlier in the CD course.2023 July 21, Madeline Alizadeh, Osman Ali, Raymond K. Cross, “Assessing Progression of Biologic Therapies Based on Smoking Status in…. From the entry sequence
  • Planning permission runs with the land once implemented; cessation of use does not prevent resumption later on (this is particularly important in mineral working).1997, Keith Thomas, “Legal Aspects of Development Control”, in Development Control: Principles and Practice, London; Bristol, Pa.: UCL…. From the entry planning permission
  • An “expeditious cessation of hostilities” is essential to “stabilise European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war and re-establish strategic stability with Russia”, the document says.2025 December 6, “US security strategy urges ‘resistance’ to Europe and shrugs off Russian threat”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial…. From the entry expeditious
  • But, perhaps because that final stage of human life following old age—-life's cessation—is irresistible, it is against the aging of our bodies that we make a last complaint.2015, Albrecht Classen, editor, Handbook of Medieval Culture, volume 2, De Gruyter. From the entry Wife of Bath
  • Beta-blocking agents and centrally acting sympathetolytic drugs such as clonidine may cause rebound hypertension after abrupt cessation and should not be stopped during the perioperative period.2004, Hypertension Pearls, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry sympathetolytic
  • The reduction in soil water status and the cessation of sand movement are considered to be important factors in the decline of the A. ordosica community.1996, Commonwealth Bureau of Soil Science, Soils and fertilizers, volume 59, page 554. From the entry autopathy
  • The patient is urged to wear antitension tapes for 6 months or even longer if cessation of tape application at that time is followed by any widening of the scar.1977, Clinics in Plastic Surgery, volume 4, number 2, page 271. From the entry antitension

Meaning of cessation

  1. noun A ceasing or discontinuance, for example of an action, whether temporary or final.

Full definition of cessation

Questions about cessation in a sentence

How do you use cessation in a sentence?
Cessation is used as a noun. For example: “He’s been on the smoking cessation wagon for two weeks now.”
What is a short sentence with cessation?
“He regards it as a smoking cessation aid.”
What does cessation mean?
Cessation means a ceasing or discontinuance, for example of an action, whether temporary or final.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cessation (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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