Sentence examples for desist from playing from inspiring English sources

Mr. McConaughey, the weak link in casting, should cease and desist from playing any more smart lawyers (Maslin).

Mr. McConaughey, the weak link in casting that includes Nigel Hawthorne as Martin Van Buren, should cease and desist from playing any more smart lawyers (Maslin).

Mr. McConaughey, the weak link in casting that includes Nigel Hawthorne as Martin Van Buren, should cease and desist from playing any more smart lawyers (Janet Maslin).

And she literally sent President Trump a cease and desist letter for playing her music at one of his rallies.

But eating out these days has become more like theatre (particularly true in this case, what with Heston roasting pineapples on a clockwork spit), and we wouldn't desist from reviewing a play simply because it was at the Royal Court.

And the organization has gone so far as to request the researchers desist from publishing their work.

It's rather as if poets were ordered forthwith to desist from sonnets, or one-act plays were banned in theatre.

The letter from Pharrell's lawyers said the artist "has not and will not" allow Trump to "publicly" play "any of his music" and asked that he "cease and desist from any further unauthorized use".

Children at various British schools have been told in recent years to wear goggles when using certain glues, avoid playing with empty egg boxes because of possible salmonella poisoning, wear a helmet when walking under horse chestnut trees, and desist from three-legged races because they are too dangerous.

Therefore I desist from writing.

Southampton City Council should desist from this folly.