Sentence examples for long to cease from inspiring English sources

Seizures generally do not take too long to cease, although it can seem much longer when it happens to your pet.

She yielded to him as if she were, to quote John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale," someone "half in love with easeful death," who longed "to cease upon the midnight with no pain".

Modern-dress Shakespeare has been with us for nearly a century, long enough to cease being a novelty or in need of justification.

Consider what happened to Hollywood, which long ago ceased to be the center of film production but endures as a symbol, the mythic location of the entertainment industry.

But that justification long since ceased to be valid, to the extent that it ever was.

Most of all, Kevin as a phenomenon long ago ceased to have anything to do with me.

In return, the useful parents exert considerable power over their children long after they cease to be children.

There is some poignancy to this joke, because the West has long since ceased to be the wild frontier of anything, even to its resident wildlife.

But ties with Cuba, which long ago ceased to pose any threat to America, remained frozen in the Cold War.

Indeed, it has long since ceased to be of central importance even to the local area.

Also, while Greece has long since ceased to be the epicenter, things seem to be breaking down there too.