Example sentences for: finishes

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

  • Coffee isn't ready to drink when it begins but when it finishes perking.

  • The passing of each year of one's life is celebrated generally for everyone as Christmas finishes and the New Year arrives.

  • In any case, let's hope that someone finishes the race soon, so the balloonists can move on to something worthwhile--such as, say, the Mars Prize.

  • Life Is Beautiful, written and directed by and starring Italian Roberto Benigni (he starred in Down by Law , 1986), has won international acclaim for wedding sentimental, Chaplinesque slapstick to a story that finishes up in a concentration camp with Jews being gassed and roasted.

  • Just for the record, there's a bit of Puccini in Rent . At the end, Roger the songwriter finally finishes his song for Mimi--"Your Eyes"[LINK TO AUDIO CLIP]--and in it, we also hear a brief snatch of "Musetta's Waltz."


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