English example sentences with "desist"

I demand that you cease and desist from sending unsolicited emails.

With stones and sticks the villagers soon put the Methymnaeans to flight, and did not desist from the pursuit, till they had driven them from that part of the island.

Cease and desist!

Could you kindly desist from throwing peanuts from the gallery?

The opium-smoker, still portly and well-dressed, is entreated by his poor wife on bended knees to desist from the disastrous habit.