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Example sentences for "end"

Lexicographically close words:
encyclopaedic; encyclopedias; encyclopedic; encyclopedists; encysted; endanger; endangered; endangering; endangers; endarteritis
  1. To what end is the ultimate appeal in judicature lodged in this kingdom, if men may be disabled from following their suits here, and may be taxed into an absolute denied of justice?

  2. See what it is to have a good look-out, and to see danger at the end of a sufficiently long perspective!

  3. De Vinne says: "When any complete sentence is enclosed by parentheses, the period should be before the last parenthesis, but when these parentheses enclose a few words at the end of a sentence, the period should be after the last parenthesis.

  4. The system is defective in its inability to make provision for the syllables that end with consonants.

  5. De Vinne says the system most approved now authorizes the division of a word, when consistent with pronunciation, on the vowel at the end of the syllable.

  6. They are not needed at the end of a quotation, between it and the credit.

  7. Credits at the end of matter are best set in italic lower-case, without any em dash to connect the credit with the quotation.

  8. Follow the American rule of dividing words at the end of the line according to pronunciation rather than the British rule of dividing on the vowel or to show derivation.

  9. We both fell close to a rock at the end of the cove road, and my head struck the rock.

  10. Just as he came to the end of these self-justification reflections, these comfortable sophisms, Mrs. Vernon entered the room, dressed for going out.

  11. She was as blithe and wholesome as the end of May; she was a northern Hebe, a goddess of youth and joy.

  12. He made up his mind that, come what might, he would end his life where his fortune had begun, and where now his ruin was complete.

  13. He should walk down to the end of that narrow lane.

  14. As if by a common instinct, the two men retired to the further end of the passage to hold a brief council.

  15. Mary, whom he had married long ago; and yet, now that he had come to the end of his life, it seemed but yesterday.

  16. Those who travelled post were often detained for horses; and those who went by coach had to book their places weeks before, paying half the fare, and even then a heavy fall of snow might put an end to all journeys.

  17. God's Word placeth before our eyes the world, to the end we may see what a fine spark it is.

  18. But if in case I have in my books of controversies been too violent against any man, then I am content therein to be better directed, and for that end I desire respite of time.

  19. All are acceptable, so long and until our giddy brains be satisfied; afterwards they let them lie, and seek after new things; therefore in the end there must come errors among us.

  20. But Christ died not for the sake of our ambition and vain-glory, but he died only to the end that his name might be sanctified.

  21. These gods were at a union, to the end they might fool and deceive the whole world; but Christ they cannot endure, for he hath whipped them out.

  22. But as this heat proceedeth from the rays of the sun, so likewise the terrifying of the conscience must proceed from the preaching of the Law, to the end we may know that we have offended against the Laws of God.

  23. God appointed the Imperial Diet at Augsburg, to the end the Gospel should be spread further abroad and planted.

  24. The two days of review at the end of May was a spectacle not likely to be forgotten by those who saw it or did not see it.

  25. The Easy Chair has not quite come to the end of his travels; and would he malign the gentlemanly and accommodating?

  26. The end of all our study and endeavor, he said, should be complete living.

  27. Upon a little platform at the end of the hall stood the guest and other distinguished ministers.

  28. The history of Salamanca's ecclesiastical architecture is connected with the campaigns which were carried on in Castile and Leon at the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth centuries.

  29. Here at one end of the plaza was the site of the convent mentioned by Emperor Charles, which had long sheltered the nuns of Santa Clara.

  30. The central portions of the east end open into the great Capilla Real.

  31. Erected at the end of the thirteenth or beginning of the fourteenth century, much of its Gothic sculpture is unsurpassed in Spain.

  32. The transepts do not project beyond the chapels of the side aisles, and at the east end it differs from most Spanish churches in having a square termination instead of an apse.

  33. It was King Alfonso VI who at the end of the eleventh century gave his palace-ground for the erection of a Cathedral for the new Episcopal See.

  34. The corner stone was laid and the masonry started at the western end under the most renowned architect of the age.

  35. The east end of the Capilla Mayor is formed by the magnificent retablo, almost four thousand square feet in size.

  36. How wonderful it would be to describe that awful destruction, and say at the end of the letter: "And this happened just the night before we reached Paris.

  37. The old legend of the soldiers that when the figure of the Virgin fell to the earth the war would end has been dissipated, for during the last drive that figure fell, and the tower with it.

  38. One day a shell took off the end of the old château in which he was serving the men.

  39. Another day another shell took off the other end of the château, but he did not leave.

  40. Mr. Wecks's establishment was at the far end of the main street of Coburntown; so the lads had half a dozen blocks to cover before they reached the place.

  41. Dave was unwilling to let the chase end there; so he and his friends spent the remainder of the evening walking up and down Broadway, and traversing several blocks of the side streets in the vicinity where Ward Porton had disappeared.

  42. Here they paused at the end of the hallway to listen.

  43. If you try to jump off the unfinished end of the bridge you'll break your neck.

  44. Then the pair started slowly back to the end of the bridge from which they had come.

  45. And now let me add a few words more and then bring to an end this story of "Dave Porter and His Double.

  46. He looked them full in the face for just an instant, and then turned and began to run away towards the opposite end of the long bridge.

  47. Now that end of the business is at a standstill.

  48. Read here the Explanation of the Map, at the end of the volume.

  49. Rome in 1377; and this was the end of what was styled the seventy years' captivity in Babylon.

  50. It was a great thing for the Church that the emperor of Rome should give it liberty; and Constantine, after sending forth the laws which put an end to the persecution, went on to make other laws in favour of the Christians.

  51. The sight of the hill of bones near Nicaea roused them to fury; and, in order to avenge Walter the Pennyless and his companions, they laid siege to the city, which they took at the end of six weeks.

  52. THE end of life--the object of life--is happiness.

  53. But the ultra theologian is not satisfied with this--he wishes to destroy the liberty of the people--he wishes a recognition of his God as the source of authority, to the end that the church may become the supreme power.

  54. Do all you can to develop their minds, to the end that they may live useful and happy lives.

  55. The breath of life is sought to be breathed into it, to the end that some people may wreak their vengeance on an honest man.

  56. After all, the Agnostic and the Positivist have the same end in view--both believe in living for this world.

  57. The end being given, the means to accomplish it are given also.

  58. Does it necessarily follow that a man wishes to commit some crime if he refuses to admit that the river Jordan cut itself in two and allowed the lower end to run away?

  59. We also want to go in partnership with these forces of nature, to the end that we may be well fed and clothed--that we may have good houses that protect us from heat and cold.

  60. His last poor chance of preventing the marriage depended on his being still able to communicate with Iris--and she was as completely lost to him as if she had taken flight to the other end of the world.

  61. He looked towards the farther end of the wood.

  62. Remind himself as he might of the end which, in the interests of Iris, did really appear to justify the means, he still sank to a place in his own estimation which he was honestly ashamed to occupy.

  63. And there was an end of the evidence which the absent Iris had left behind her.

  64. It was opened, from the outer side, before he had reached that end of the room.

  65. On the next morning, there was an end to my short-lived enjoyment of no more than the latter half of a day.

  66. If it had still been possible for her to hesitate, that reply would have put an end to all further doubt.

  67. Let him be left to the end which always awaits such men.

  68. It was a moment, never to be forgotten to the end of their lives.

  69. This amazing end to the strange events which had just been narrated proved to be more than Iris was immediately capable of understanding.

  70. My English friend," he said, "the unexpected end of this young Irish gentleman is a very melancholy affair.

  71. They had seen but little of each other since they had gone their different ways--one of them, on the high road which leads to success, the other down the byways which end in failure.

  72. You will pity me, when you hear that I have fallen lower and lower; you will be sorry for me, when I end in disgracing myself.

  73. When you were staying with me in the country, I rather hoped it might end in a marriage engagement.

  74. Thus, sometimes, is the end of Human life.

  75. It is at the east end of the church, nearly under a window.

  76. Agnes was entering the far end of the elm-tree walk as he sprang down into the little coplanade, but he was too dreadfully preoccupied with hope and anguish, and almost despair, to observe any thing around him.

  77. A narrow green walk, not previously remarked, led from the door to the west end of the church.

  78. The sudden entrance of Madame Dumesnil put an end to the conversation, and the friends separated.

  79. To disguise his stolen horse, the uneducated thief cuts off the tail; but the educated thief prefers tying on a new tail at the end of the old one, and painting them both sky blue.

  80. All that day I could think of nothing but Calhoun, and how he must be a slippery villain, such as novels and plays describe very plainly, and always destroy in the end to everyone's satisfaction.

  81. Well, sir, that magnet, such was the stickiness of its vitals, it pulled the business end of the needle around plumb over it, and there it stayed.

  82. One afternoon I stood within the door that led from the long verandah to the hall and floor above, the door of the public close beside it; and my father was asleep in his chair far at the other end of the verandah.

  83. I believe I would break my knee willingly, and carry a crutch to the end of my days, to be so good a man, so simple and full of the pleasure of things.

  84. An' the cap'n pine blank mad like a teeter end hornet!

  85. We camped at the end of the nine miles on a small sandbank, with the total height of walls about four thousand feet, breaking back in terraces after about eight hundred feet.

  86. The old drifts were so deep that where a horse broke through the crust he went down to the end of his leg.

  87. His plan was for us to go on and he would join us again August 25th at Gunnison Crossing, at the end of the Canyon of Desolation, the next canyon of the series.

  88. Andy at the stroke oars, and Clem in the bow, Clem having gotten all over his inclination to leave and being determined now to see the end of the voyage before he departed.

  89. Jack and me down the river a short distance to put up a signal, a small American flag, on the lower end of an island, where it could easily be seen by any one looking for us.

  90. They proceeded to the lower end of the park by boat and through the little canyon that came in there, got out to the plateau where Steward and I had before been, but there they went farther.

  91. Compare with Map C at page 246, the south end of Kaibab Plateau.

  92. Compare with Map C at page 246--the south end of Kaibab Plateau.

  93. Andy took his place in our boat to run the lower end of the rapid, which was easily done.

  94. Another day I went with Steward down across the triangular bottom to the lower end of the park where we climbed out through the canyon of a little brook to a sandy and desolate plateau.

  95. There's a sharp end of wire under my hands.

  96. Gradually he worked the rope end into reach and began to move it, hoping to loosen the knot.

  97. The plane turned and taxied to the end of the runway.

  98. With a final whip he swung the pouch forward and released the free end of the string at precisely the right moment.

  99. Then he rubbed it with the blunt end of the pliers, trying to get a good bond between the tape and the solder of the junction.

  100. Pegasus flashed low over the hills at the end of Scarlet Lake and touched earth at twelve hundred miles an hour.


  101. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "end" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; abolish; abolition; abort; accomplish; accomplishment; acme; adjoin; afterglow; aim; all; allotment; allowance; annihilate; annihilation; answer; apogee; archer; arrest; astrology; athlete; attend; balance; bane; batter; battery; belay; bell; bit; bite; border; bottom; bound; boundary; bourn; break; budget; butt; cancel; cap; catastrophe; catcher; cease; ceiling; center; cessation; chaff; check; checkmate; chip; chloroform; chunk; circumscription; climax; clip; clipping; close; closing; closure; coach; coda; collop; come; commission; compass; competitor; complete; completion; conclude; conclusion; confine; constellation; consummate; consummation; contingent; crown; crumb; culminate; culmination; cup; curtain; curtains; cut; cutoff; cutting; deadline; deadlock; deal; death; deathblow; debris; decease; decoding; defeat; delimitation; demise; demolish; denouement; departure; desist; destination; destiny; destroy; destruction; desuetude; determinant; determination; determine; detritus; develop; die; disappear; discontinuance; discontinue; disentanglement; dismissal; dispatch; dissolution; dividend; dole; dollop; doom; drop; dying; edge; effect; end; ending; ensue; eschatology; event; execute; exit; expiration; expire; explanation; exterminate; extinction; extreme; extremity; fare; fatality; fate; filings; final; finale; finality; finding; finis; finish; finishing; floor; follow; fortune; fossil; fragment; frontier; fullback; future; game; goal; going; grave; guard; gun; half; halt; hedge; heel; helping; hold; hunk; husk; idea; immolate; inevitability; intent; intention; interest; interface; interpretation; interrupt; issue; jumper; kill; knell; lapse; last; leavings; leftover; lift; limen; limit; limitation; line; lineman; liquidate; live; lockout; lot; lump; lynch; march; mark; martyr; maturation; maturity; maximum; measure; meed; mess; modicum; moiety; morsel; motive; nip; object; objective; outcome; outfield; overthrow; pack; paring; part; particle; parting; pass; passing; peak; percentage; perfect; perfection; perform; period; perish; peroration; phase; piece; pinnacle; player; poison; pole; portion; prey; proportion; prove; pugilist; purge; purpose; pursuit; quantum; quarry; quarterback; quietus; quit; quota; racer; rag; rasher; ration; rear; reason; refrain; refuse; release; relics; relinquish; remains; remnant; renounce; residue; resolution; resolve; rest; result; reward; rid; roach; round; rubbish; ruin; rump; sacrifice; sawdust; scoop; scouring; scrap; scratch; scrub; segment; sequel; sever; shadow; shard; share; shaving; shiver; shortstop; shred; slaughter; slay; sleep; slice; sliver; snack; snatch; snip; solving; splinter; sport; sportsman; stake; stalemate; stamp; stanch; stand; standstill; stars; start; starve; stay; stitch; stock; stop; stoppage; straw; strike; stub; stubble; stump; stunt; succumb; summit; suppress; suppression; survival; suspension; sweepings; tackle; take; target; tatter; term; terminal; terminate; termination; terminus; threshold; tip; top; trace; twilight; ultimate; unfold; unraveling; untangling; upshot; utmost; vanish; vestige; waste; weird; working; weird; working


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    endemic species; endless chain; endless life; endless misery; endless night; endless number; endless punishment; endless screw; endless succession; endless torment; endless variety; endowment fund