We hope to be able to tell within minutes what time the rain will start and cease over a wide area around London.

In the early part of the day, the rains would cease for a time.

Fortunately the rain had ceased some time during the night.

During the night the rain ceased so I kept my fire still smaller.

And when the last of them was aboard, the rain had almost ceased.

The rain had ceased and the forest was quiet now.

The rain ceased abruptly, as if it had been turned off.

The rain ceased as if a tap had been turned off.

Once they were at the bottom, the rain ceased for a moment.

They came in the morning even before the rain had ceased.