Sentence examples for cease becoming from inspiring English sources

When does a laptop cease becoming a laptop and becomes a portable desktop?

One day, seemingly without cause, he leaves the stage in mid-performance and retreats to his abandoned childhood home "to cease performing and simply be", or to "cease becoming and merely be" as he echoes later.

He wouldn't cease becoming.

And the juxtaposition between songs semi-stripped of enhancements versus songs fully digitized allows for a cushier listening platform (one you can hear yourself on their upcoming U.S. tour in March) that ceases from becoming redundant.

Napster ended up ceasing operations, eventually becoming a fee-based service under new ownership.

Renaissance Cruises ceased operating yesterday, becoming the industry's first casualty of the terrorist attacks.

They also reported that as shading rates increased, a larger number of inflorescences ceased growth before becoming fruit, more fruit yellowed and dropped, and more fruit failed to set above the shoots' 5th nodes [ 45].

Convenient maybe, but, ultimately, symbolic of some nasty shit going on beneath the surface: You stop ovulating, risk becoming infertile, and cease producing all those hormones that prevent you from growing excessive amounts of facial hair (which, I guess is good for the no-chin problem).

Eventually, after billions more years, the Sun will finally cease to shine altogether, becoming a black dwarf.

At what point do memes cease to be subversive, becoming perhaps instead a rather grotesque display of privilege, since we are able to laugh so much and so often at a man whom millions are afraid of?

Although some copies may accumulate deleterious mutations and eventually cease to be functional (becoming pseudogenes), others may acquire, by chance, beneficial mutations and evolve under positive selection.