How to Use desist in a Sentence

desist

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• Despite orders from the police, the protesters would not desist.
• And the county sent its cease-and-desist letter on April 8.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 17 Apr. 2020
• Leen wrote Thursday in a cease-and-desist letter to FPL.
  — Monique O. Madan, miamiherald, 15 Sep. 2017
• The man turned out to be a Parma man, 51, and officer spoke to him and ordered him to cease and desist.
  — Mark Holan/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 20 May 2017
• The City has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the owners of the sign on top of the Two North Twentieth building - again.
  — Kelly Poe, AL.com, 28 June 2017
• At that point, the agency’s legal team sent her a letter telling her to cease and desist.
  — Natalie Weber Tampa Bay Times (tns), al, 12 Aug. 2022
• A month later, the Board of Health withdrew its cease-and-desist order.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 10 Nov. 2022
• Amazon and Ashford weren’t fined but agreed to a cease-and-desist order.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
• So many toys, Uvalde officials asked that donors cease and desist.
  — Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2022
• The publisher of Michael Wolff's book about Trump isn't backing down in the face of Trump's attempt at a cease-and-desist order.
  — NBC News, 9 Jan. 2018
• The transit agency's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to Kanye West, who agreed through his law firm to stop using the logo.
  — Elliot Njus, OregonLive.com, 16 June 2017
• Obama's office said his lawyers would be sending the PAC a cease-and-desist letter.
  — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2020
• Finally in 2002, the Army issued the couple a cease-and-desist order.
  — Donald Bradley, kansascity.com, 22 May 2017
• Fogerty sent cease-and-desist letters to the Trump campaign and even joined TikTok solely to chide Trump for playing the tune.
  — Jon Bream, Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
• It wasn’t removed, so Ryan is preparing to send a cease-and-desist letter to request that Napster take down the page.
  — Brad King, WIRED, 12 July 2000
• Nessel's office will release a statement about the cease-and-desist later this week, Jarvi said.
  — Ashley Nerbovig, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2020
• Those documents include a cease-and-desist order from the president's lawyer to Daniels -- and a defamation suit by Daniels against the lawyer.
  — Paula Reid, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2018
• The key to writing a best-selling book: have the president of the United States blast it on Twitter and send a cease-and-desist letter to the publisher.
  — Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2018
• Last week, the county served orders to close or cease-and-desist letters to at least three gyms in Pacific Beach, Oceanside and Vista.
  — Morgan Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
• But Smart, who was kidnapped from her Utah home as a teenager in 2002, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to demand that her name be removed from it.
  — NBC News, 26 Mar. 2018
• When the problem surfaced in the fall, the district sent a cease-and-desist notice to the two businesses and filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice.
  — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Jan. 2022
• Lime launched its scooter-share program last week without a permit, prompting the city to issue a cease-and-desist letter to the start-up.
  — Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 17 May 2018
• And there have been instances in which brand owners issued cease-and-desist demands, but those rarely appear.
  — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2021
• Collingswood resident Suzanne Cloud, who listed her three-bedroom house on Airbnb in 2014, was shocked to receive a cease-and-desist letter from the city.
  — Tauhid Chappell, Philly.com, 28 June 2018
• The state previously sent Noise a cease-and-desist order in July.
  — Ashley Southall, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• Western allies, neighbours and many fellow Kurds had begged him to desist.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
• In Supreme’s early years, Louis Vuitton sent the company a cease-and-desist letter for doing so.
  — Khadeeja Safdar, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• On Thursday, the Minnesota Department of Health served the restaurant with a cease-and-desist order.
  — Erin Adler, Star Tribune, 11 Dec. 2020
• The almost-two-hour Harvard speech could only be read as a cease-and-desist threat against those who want to put him to pasture or to expand the Court’s membership.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 June 2021
• Syenrai received a cease-and-desist notice from Meta in November 2021.
  — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 26 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024