How to Use ending in a Sentence

ending

noun
  • I didn't like the book's ending.
  • You can often recognize an English adverb by its “-ly” ending.
  • The game was rigged, the ending already set — or so many thought.
    Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 9 June 2023
  • The Dodgers were on the verge of a very different ending.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
  • But the best thing about His Three Daughters is the ending.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of Beau Is Afraid.
    Vulture, 13 June 2023
  • As the ending of the story perhaps presages, Martha is on the cusp of a change in her life.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024
  • Any of them would be a perfect spot to read Han's books and try to guess the ending of the series.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 15 May 2024
  • With that change, though, the ending is still troubling.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The ending will not have come as a surprise to either side.
    Tariq Panja, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • With all those moving parts, what cracked open the ending?
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
  • This chart shows how much the field of letter endings for boys names have changed.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
  • But to not have this ending would be to deny the people who were lost in my life.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
  • And the ending is really an end of an era in many, many ways.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024
  • But the point was to show a nihilistic ending like this one.
    Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
  • But like many wars, this one never seems to reach a true ending.
    Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • When the ending is bad, the prime minister doesn’t show up.
    Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 9 June 2024
  • And at first viewers are led to believe, in a clever fake-out, that the show is, in fact, have the same ending as the book and the movie.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 July 2024
  • For the cats, at least, this story does have a happy ending.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
  • There couldn’t have been a better ending for him, an MVP.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
  • And then, no spoilers, but her ending in the film is massive.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And the most of those were like sitcoms, and Bill Cosby was at the top of the list, so there’s a sad ending to that story.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 3 May 2023
  • Their ending is one built on terms Bill and Frank set for themselves.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Nowhere is that more pronounced than with the ending of Rebirth which...
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 29 Feb. 2024
  • And then also a lot of people are talking about how poignant the ending is.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
  • As is often the case in sports, there is no happy ending.
    Maury Brown, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • That ending was always the plan for Gabe, Steinberg says.
    Max Gao, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Several sailors said the speech seemed to be the perfect ending for the ship’s wartime service.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2023
  • Worse still, the ending to upend what little closure is given in order to set up a Season 2.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Now that Hocus Pocus 3 has been confirmed, here's everything the cast and creators have said about the upcoming movie (plus how the ending sets up the story).
    Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024

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