Sentence examples for ceased to work because from inspiring English sources
The fluorescent lights on the candyfloss stall shone very brightly; mobile phones ceased to work because the system was overloaded; and a group near the burger bar tried to start a Mexican wave.
The life-saving drugs, which held a great deal of promises during the 1940s to eradicate all the infectious life-threatening diseases in the world, have ceased to work, because of the increasing emergence of microbial strains invulnerable to them.
"Around Indonesia there are quite a few water plants that cease to work because they can't collect the revenue and get enough money to repair the systems.
Indeed, if there were such a formula, and if it became widely known, it probably would cease to work (because the efficacy of the formula would be destroyed by its widespread use).
The long lead time is given because of the possibility (nay, inevitability) that there are some critical systems (for example in aging municipal infrastructure) that will cease to work because of this change.
He then ceased to work at it himself, chiefly because he knew that if he continued to take any part in it the credit would fall mainly to himself.
Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer may have had religious connotations, but on the sexy side, baring all ceased to work for them after a time because "it doesn't make a difference if we're naked or not".
Labour lost in 1979, and saw its membership almost halve because it had clung to a failing system – Keynesian economics – long after it ceased to work.
Because you're stuck in the old way, you're wedded to a business model that is ceasing to work very well".
