Where even his voice, and the words that burned in it, would cease.

Base society on profit and the word 'fair' ceases to exist.

The words had ceased and there was just the whistling of heavy breathing.

But she had been called that before, and the words had ceased to hurt.

These words had ceased to have any meaning for them.

But once the movement is realized, words, though still useful, cease to play a decisive role.

She works in such haste that her words cease to have a meaning, and a mind seems to be going to waste.

The words ceased for a moment, as if that which could be neither imagined or spoken had claimed her voice.

In such a case, words would cease, to a degree, to be a medium for the exchange of thought.

As I said before, a word from him and the slaughter would have ceased.