end
[end]
Definition:
1. A final state.
2. Bring to an end or halt.
3. The concluding parts of an event or occurrence.
'end' example sentence:
- He became very weak towards the end of his life.
- If you go on like this you'll end up in prison.
- I joined the end of the queue.
- Can't you see he's just using you for his own ends?
- Come and see us, if you're at a loose end.
- I'm at the end of my patience.
- It's nearly the end of term.
- The recession is definitely at an end.
- In the end it proved a pointless exercise.
- He was instrumental in bringing about an end to the conflict.
- This will surely end in disaster.
- Tempers flared towards the end of the meeting.
- Are there any problems at your end?
- They arranged the tables end to end.
- I'm truly sorry that things had to end like this.
- I have kept my end of the bargain.
- He planned to end the welfare system as we know it.
- He would disappear for weeks on end.
- They live in the end house.
- It was the end of a long combat.
- The summer came to an end.
- Everything will come right in the end.
- Exercising regularly will pay dividends in the end.
- She was nearing the end of her life.
- He'll end up in the nick.
- I arrived at the end of April.
- Rule a line at the end of every piece of work.
- The cold war came to an end.
- Waitressing was a dead-end job.
- We didn't leave until the very end.
- It'll fit if you stand it on end.
- The war was finally at an end.
- Work always piles up at the end of the year.
- I'm always broke by the end of the month.
- Stop up the other end of the tube, will you?
- In the end they lose millions, perhaps billions.
- The hospital closed at the end of last year.
- Turn right at the end of the road.
- Turn right at the end of the street.
- This war has got to end soon.
- We need somebody to handle the marketing end of the business.
- At the end of the day we were £ 20 down.
- They are at the end of their food supply.
- I'm sure you'll get there in the end.
- It's the end of an era.
- Work on the office building will be complete at the end of the year.
- You've got something on the end of your nose.
- The new model will be in production by the end of the year.
- Death finally brought an end to her suffering.
- These two products are from opposite ends of the price range.
- With this end in view they employed 50 new staff.
- Failing one exam is not the end of the world.
- The end result of her hard work was a place at medical school.
- That was by no means the end of the matter.
- The new rules could mean the end of football as we know it.
- We had come to a dead end in our research.
- The results of the research are summarized at the end of the chapter.
- It seemed an appropriate place to end somehow.