How to Use terminus in a Sentence

terminus

noun

• Stockholm is the terminus for the southbound train.
• Geologists took samples from the terminus of the glacier.
• The flow of water in a stream near the terminus of the Laohugou No.
  — Reuters, CNN, 9 Nov. 2020
• At the terminus of the two wings is a wet bar and tasting area.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• The park is also home to the eastern terminus of the Ice Age Trail.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2017
• No land sat lower than this basin, the terminus of the Tule, Kaweah, Kings and Kern rivers.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• There’s a guard at a gatehouse, the sole access point, at the terminus of a dead-end road.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2018
• Drop your bag then hop back on the #8 train for the 20-minute ride over the German border to the terminus at Weil am Rhein.
  — Ryan Haase, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• On the map, Fort Adams lay at the terminus of the road, which soon left the town behind and entered thick forest.
  — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• In the end, the fact that the entire clan managed to make it to the terminus of the 2,200-mile slog at Maine's Mount Katahdin is remarkable.
  — Kaelyn Lynch, Outside Online, 21 Apr. 2020
• Of course, the pipeline years, when Valdez became the terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, had a role in that.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2021
• There's way more to this area than just the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.
  — Brian Kevin, Outside Online, 18 June 2020
• So the action moved down the line to Martinsburg, the terminus of that B&O section.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• Shenzhen is home to some of the world’s largest ports and is a major terminus in trade between the U.S. and China.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2022
• Beatriz Muñoz, 38, cleaned trains for six months last year at the terminus of the Q line at 96th Street in Manhattan.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• The pace slowed for a while when the parade reached its terminus outside the historic Trocadero.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
• An icy chute ten feet deep sits slightly downhill, at a precipice high above the glacier’s terminus.
  — Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Once the bridge is opened, a lone gap will remain farther to the west and near the path’s current eastern terminus at Kings Road.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• Cedar Key was once the terminus of Florida’s cross-state railroad and a busy port city.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
• The main entrance remains open at the northern terminus of State Rt.
  — James Ewinger, cleveland.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• Take notes; this R&B boss won't be signing his terminus any time soon.
  — Bianca Alysse, Billboard, 26 Dec. 2017
• To make room for the gondola, the terminus of Fabyan’s Express will be moved about 180 feet downhill.
  — Christopher Jensen, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• The city was the historic terminus for jingling, snorting camel trains on trade routes later dubbed the Silk Road.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2019
• One day, at the Flushing subway terminus, a friend of Schifter’s saw 30 cabs waiting on fares.
  — Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 15 May 2018
• The southern terminus is on the outskirts of Cincinnati.
  — John Pana, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
• Back then, the journey to the terminus was 10 to 15 kilometers by foot through steep, rocky terrain.
  — The Atlantic, 6 June 2018
• At a stop near the streetcar terminus, Deborah Williamson waits for her bus home, a one-hour ride.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2017
• The western terminus of the southwestern border is home to the world’s busiest land crossing.
  — Daniel Wheaton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• The Summit Trailhead, located on the side of Oregon 6, is the southern terminus of the trail.
  — oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2020
• Professional sport is now a 365-day event that is frightened of pulling into the terminus for any length of time.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024