[ US /ˈsisɫɪs/ ]
[ UK /sˈiːsləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
    the ceaseless thunder of surf
    the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy
    man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation
    night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city
    in constant pain
    unremitting demands of hunger
    the never-ending search for happiness
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How To Use ceaseless In A Sentence

  • Many people striving to get through the next fortnight of seemingly ceaseless spending may be tempted to spread the cost with a zero per cent credit card. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hence to entire sincerity there belongs ceaselessness. The doctrine of the mean
  • It is constant and ceaseless in the vast majority of us, as uncritical self-observation will soon reveal.
  • Our life is a movement, a tendency, a steady, ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.
  • The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight.
  • Yes, I know the Internet is a jungle, but as the writer above puts it, life continues to be a "ceaseless struggle to extract moments of goodness and purity from a world of tragedy. Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
  • In his aspect there was a certain dryness, and, altogether, his vivacity, his ceaselessness, and a kind of equability of tone in his voice, reminded me of what Homer says concerning the old men around Priam, above the gate of Troy, how they "chirped like cicalas on a summer day. Adventures Among Books
  • This is a column about New Labour's complete failure to publicise its many progressive achievements, while screeching out its reactionary policies in a ceaseless wail.
  • My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dramatics, and the thrill of sojourns in the country, theaters, concerts.
  • The gods had condemned him to ceaselessly roll a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight.
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