How to Use "desist" with Example Sentences

1. Last year china asked the americans to desist , but was rebuffed .
2. The king 's physician often pleaded with him to desist from consuming sugar .
3. This will make these conversations so sticky that she will desist .
4. U.s. officials say the training exercises are designed to warn north korea 's military to desist from further provocative actions against the south .
5. Obama again urged iran to desist from any nuclear weapons ambitions , and said a region that was already unsettled did not need a race for ever more powerful weapons .