Explore Cancelled through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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Cancelled meaning
simple past and past participle of cancel
Synonyms of Cancelled
Using Cancelled
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of cancel
- Useful related words include: off, on.
- In the example corpus, cancelled often appears in combinations such as: been cancelled, be cancelled, was cancelled.
Example sentences (20)
There were 11 runs cancelled this morning, 14 cancelled this afternoon, for a total of 25 cancelled today.
There were 14 runs cancelled this morning, 47 cancelled this afternoon, for a total of 61 cancelled today.
There were 3 runs cancelled this morning, 11 cancelled this afternoon, for a total of 14 cancelled today.
There was 1 run cancelled this morning, 7 cancelled this afternoon, for a total of 8 cancelled today.
There were 27 runs cancelled this morning, 60 cancelled this afternoon, for a total of 87 cancelled today.
There were 6 runs cancelled this morning, 18 cancelled this afternoon, for a total of 24 cancelled today.
At least 44 flights were cancelled to Italy as of Saturday morning, with the potential for up to 140 routes to be cancelled by the end of the weekend.
Brittany Ferries has cancelled all crossings between Portsmouth and Le Havre, while Condor Ferries has also cancelled all services to the Channel Islands from both Portsmouth and Saint-Malo due to “adverse weather”.
Epic Comic’s controversial new Void Indigo series is being cancelled with its second issue, making it the first ongoing Epic series to be cancelled.
The result of thousands of cancelled services – as many as one in six, often with just a few hours’ notice – is cancelled events, lost sales, and a decline footfall in our towns and city centres.
When the Scarecrow Invasion was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, I wrote an editorial in which I suggested that though the event was cancelled, we could still fill this community with scarecrows.
Bea, who was intending to travel there for a holiday today told The Sun: "Our flight was cancelled almost an hour ago and we haven't had any further information, they've cancelled the next one to which means the earliest flight is 5.30pm.
It only really sunk in on day two of the lockdown that everything cancelled could be cancelled forever and everything waiting for a chance will be waiting for a long time.
Nearly 200 flights affecting 25,000 passengers were cancelled, major roads were closed and rail services cancelled – as forecasters warned there was little respite on the horizon.
Rowing Australia has cancelled the Sydney International Rowing Regatta, which was due to take place at the Regatta Centre from March 23 to 29. Centenary of Women’s Rowing Dinner scheduled for March 28 in Penrith has been cancelled.
There are some people, if you have used up your second and third chances with a certain topic, you’re cancelled and you should stay cancelled.
When the York Conference was cancelled, I was annoyed, not because I love conference per se, but because I’d been involved in planning the launch of a new organisation – Northern Liberal Network – which had to be cancelled.
As per the North Western Railways spokesperson, 64 trains have been cancelled, 71 diverted and 32 partially cancelled in the last eight days.
Cruelly cancelled in 2001, and then cruelly cancelled again just as it was hitting its stride on Amazon, Ben Edlund’s The Tick is a delicious, hyper-real satire adapted from his own cult comic book.
Of the seven departures, budget carrier IndiGo has cancelled five, while Air India and gulf carrier Emirates have cancelled one each.
Common combinations with cancelled
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- been cancelled 35×
- be cancelled 28×
- was cancelled 28×
- cancelled or 21×
- were cancelled 17×
- cancelled this 12×
- cancelled the 12×
- cancelled and 11×
- is cancelled 9×
- of cancelled 8×