cease work
Example Sentences
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The company has ignored commission demands that it cease work and has filed suit against the commission, accusing it of overstepping its authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
Participants suffering from musculoskeletal pain were also 1.25 times more likely to cease work sooner, whether or not they described themselves as retired.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
Among the most dramatic improvements in their life was the determination of Black women to cease work in the fields.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
She writes that getting sick turned out to have been quote, “a most fortunate circumstance” since it quote “resulted in orders to cease work for a year.”
From Scientific American ● Nov. 11, 2021
It is not without regret that I lay down my pen, and cease work on the Reminiscences of Sixty Years, of my life.
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore
