How to Use terminate in a Sentence

terminate

verb

• The branches of that tree terminate in flower clusters.
• The rail line terminates in Boston.
• You have to terminate the program before the computer will shut down properly.
• He was terminated last month.
• His contract was terminated last month.
• Plans are being made to terminate unproductive employees.
• But the library board has set the lease to terminate next year.
  — Olivia Young, CBS News, 20 June 2026
• Forty-nine of those grants were terminated last month.
  — Nora Mabie, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
• The woman who filed it asked the court to terminate it a few months later.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 5 Nov. 2025
• He was told he had been terminated for his absence.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
• He was terminated the next day.
  — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
• Pilehvar then filed a motion to terminate the case.
  — Chelsea Jones, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
• Their faces taper down to a point and terminate in a very powerful nose.
  — Jason Bittel, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
• The non-union deputies terminated are Capt.
  — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
• The next day, she was terminated, less than five days after her initial post.
  — Huo Jingnan, NPR, 23 June 2026
• The couple's parental rights have since been terminated.
  — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 13 May 2026
• The contract was terminated in June of that year.
  — Logan Smith, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
• The city can terminate the agreement with a 60-day notice.
  — Claire Wang, Oc Register, 5 Mar. 2026
• But the decision to terminate the dog’s pregnancy isn’t one your friend gets to make.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Add this to the list of reasons why the project should be terminated – and the sooner, the better.
  — Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 25 May 2026
• The couple's parental rights have been terminated.
  — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 17 June 2026
• The grants that turned up were all terminated, with only a few exceptions.
  — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2026
• John Doe 2 was terminated a few days later.
  — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
• The decisions to take kids, return them or terminate parents’ rights are all made by a civil court.
  — Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
• The sound of the engine idling is enough to terminate all conversation for some distance.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2023
• Regardless, the agency did not terminate the awards a second time.
  — Anil Oza, STAT, 31 Dec. 2025
• Courtwright was terminated five days later.
  — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2025
• By the clear language of the terms and conditions, Apple had the right to terminate.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 4 Apr. 2023
• The couple’s parental rights have also been terminated.
  — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
• Another provision in the bill would give survivors more ways to terminate a lease.
  — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025