Example sentences for: end

How can you use “end” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We don't find out what's being advertised until the end, when the tag line comes up.

  • Another example that Thaler and Siegel use is particularly attention-getting: If you had bought $1,000 worth of Treasury bills in 1925 (because you were worried that the stock market was considered too high and too speculative), and held them until the end of 1995, you would have $12,720.

  • There is also the learned guess, as in the etymology for groundhog , the Midland name for the eastern woodchuck, which may be a calque from Dutch aertoercken , and archaic variant of aardvarken , literally `earth pig'; or hieronymous , a euphemism for the posterior, which may derive from Greek hieron osteon , the name for the sacrum; or the southern Appalachian expression to come out of the little end of the horn meaning `to be unlucky,' which is probably an allusion to a “reverse” cornucopia.

  • Planning is not an end.

  • The queen had already been reported in British newspapers as preparing to 1) end bowing and curtsying and 2) cut down on the number of "royal highnesses" in her family.


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