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Example sentences for "ending"

Lexicographically close words:
endes; endeth; endeuour; endevour; endian; endings; endit; endite; endive; endives
  1. He was restive under the length of the proceedings, however, and did advise the managers on the part of the House to push the case along as rapidly as possible, urging that the public interest required the ending of the general suspense.

  2. On that date was fought the battle of Bull Run, ending in a complete Union defeat, attended by severe losses and a panic-stricken retreat by many regiments, and followed by great national dismay and alarm.

  3. A capital school story, full of incident and fun, and ending with a mystery.

  4. Her vaudeville was ending in a horrid rout and rabble; she was sore and sick with the recollection of it.

  5. I am sure they would be much surprised at any other ending of the adventure, and they will take it very quietly.

  6. The euphonium consists of a brass tube with a conical bore of wide calibre ending in a wide-mouthed bell; it is played by means of a cup-shaped mouthpiece.

  7. When the happy ending is taken into account, it is not surprising that some should have called the Alcestis a tragi-comedy.

  8. La Salle's face was pale, and his lips firmly set, as he listened to the ending of this strange recital; but he took up the broken chain of evidence, with the firm intention of finding the missing links.

  9. Presently he missed the flash of the scarlet dress, in and out among the others, and he did not see it again until the music had stopped and the revel was ending with the chimes, rung softly on the Bells of Luzon.

  10. It was a long one, ending with a birthday greeting in rhyme, and enclosing a handkerchief which she had made herself, sheer and fine and daintily hemstitched, with her initials embroidered in one corner in the smallest letters possible.

  11. It was with some difficulty that he could be aroused and made to understand the nature of Sun Wei's profanity, for his mind was dull with the smoke of never-ending incense.

  12. But this gave place to a subdued murmur, ending with the ceremonial breaking of a plate, and later Wong Ts'in beat on a silver bell and called for wine and fruit.

  13. Foreboding evil it announced the knight-errant of never-ending space, a wicked comet.

  14. The monotony of the never ending prairie was at times enlivened by herds of buffalo and antelope.

  15. The fact that I understood their language and spoke it quite well was a never-ending surprise and mystery to them.

  16. Experience with the other plays had led the children to feel the necessity for having a satisfactory ending after the climax.

  17. The third represented the brothers coming to Joseph with Benjamin, the youngest, ending with Joseph's forgiveness of them and his sending for Jacob, their father.

  18. The story was criticized by the children as to its organization and unity, and as a result they made up an ending (Act III) which they felt was needed to make the story complete.

  19. It is about a month since I received your letter of November 9th in which I read your true goodness and loving care of me in my never-ending trials.

  20. An entrance contrived in a niche to the right of this statue led into a winding lobby ending in a sort of blind passage, which apparently was closed by two double doors.

  21. We then reached a small cavern ending in several fissures choked up with the breccia.

  22. Within the first three or four miles from Fort O'Hare two tributaries joined the main stream from the right or westward, and one from the left or eastward: one of the former ending in a noisy cascade at the junction.

  23. Mark, that chance and fortune are good, honest, profitable, and necessary for ending of and putting a final closure to dissensions and debates in suits at law.

  24. How long That dreary, never-ending journey seemed!

  25. He opened the sacred book, and placing his finger on one of its pages, read in loud voice, a verse ending in these words: "And he shall no more see the things of this earth.

  26. The first, "Exaltation," is very original, though neither the beginning nor the ending is particularly striking.

  27. The composer has endeavored to indicate the chill gray of dawn by the ending of this movement: a chord taken by two flutes and the strings shivering sul ponticello.

  28. And the ending is simply superb, though I could wish that some of the terrific dissonances in the accompaniment had been put into the unisonal voices to widen the effect and strengthen the final grandeur.

  29. The music is delicious, and the ending is a rare proof of the beautiful possibilities of dissonance.

  30. As the first half of the poem is morose yet melodious, the latter is bright with ecstasy; the ending is of the deepest tenderness.

  31. The strife of these elements is managed with great cleverness, ending beatifically with the motive of Gretchen dying away in the wood-wind.

  32. The suite ends deliciously with a night scene in Venice, beginning with a choral "Ave Maria," and ending with a campanella of the utmost delicacy.

  33. Its fiery ending is uncharacteristic, but the beautiful tenor solo and an excellent bass song prove his forte to lie in the realm of tenderness.

  34. The elaboration is frenetic with strife, but the reprise is a many-hued rainbow after storm, and the coda in A major (ending a symphony begun in A minor) is swift with delight.

  35. A subdued accentuation is got by the syncopation of the bass, and the yearning tenderness of the ending finishes an exquisite song.

  36. This seriousness is enforced with an ending of a most plaintive nature.

  37. This also was a plaster cast, of the whole of a female arm and shoulder, ending with a portion of the side of the neck and the entire breast--of its kind an exquisite specimen.

  38. The Laodicean Epistle is a fragment, ending with ‘Gaudete in Christo et præcavete sordibus in lucro’ (ver.

  39. A 4to MS of miscellaneous contents, ending with the Pauline Epistles, the last being the Epistle to the Laodiceans, written in the 9th cent.

  40. My father carried a long stick ending in an iron skewer, by means of which he unearthed snails and limaxes that were eating up the plants.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ending" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    annihilation; arrest; bane; bell; capping; catastrophe; cease; cessation; check; checkmate; close; closing; closure; coda; completion; conclusion; consummation; crowning; culminating; culmination; curtain; curtains; cutoff; deadlock; death; decease; definitive; demise; denouement; departure; destination; destiny; desuetude; discontinuance; dissolution; doom; dying; effect; end; ending; eschatology; eventual; exit; expiration; extinction; fate; final; finale; finality; finis; finish; finishing; goal; going; grave; gun; halt; knell; last; lockout; maturation; maturity; moribund; parting; passing; perfection; period; peroration; quietus; release; resolution; rest; reward; sequel; sleep; stalemate; stand; standstill; stay; stop; stoppage; strike; suffix; suppression; suspension; term; terminal; termination; terminus; upshot