Sentence examples for ceased overnight from inspiring English sources

Think what would happen to a council such as Redcar, where government negligence allowed a steel plant to close and ceased overnight, to pay business rates alongside having to provide support for those who lost their jobs".

And even if fracking the Marcellus ceased overnight, the questions and potential problems about radioactivity would linger.

It will hang around for centuries, meaning that the future is sure to be hotter, even if all greenhouse-gas emissions cease overnight.

A dozen or so magazines for which I had been writing regularly ceased publication overnight; and as for the tiny market for s-f novels (two paperback houses and one hardcover) it suddenly became so tight that unless you were one of the first-magnitude stars like Robert Heinlein or Isaac Asimov you were out of luck.

"You don't want to basically, what they would determine, insult another country by overnight ceasing the supply of a major requirement of their dietary intake which is meat".

Think about all the things we take for granted that will cease to exist overnight, or that will no longer be maintained.

And it worked: almost overnight, the complaints ceased.

Overnight, other drivers had ceased to be mere traffic.

2,163 Airborne men, 160 Poles, 75 Dorsets and several dozen mixed other men were evacuated but about 300 were left on the northern bank when the operation was ceased and 95 men were killed overnight.

Suddenly – almost overnight, it seemed at the time – patriotism ceased to be the last refuge of the scoundrel, but a worthwhile expression of national self-confidence.

Seemingly overnight, the most common conversation encountered by Oklahomans abroad ceased to be, "You're from Oklahoma?