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 | [e-mail], al, 9 June 2023
• The Dodgers were on the verge of a very different ending.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of Beau Is Afraid.
  — Vulture, 13 June 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
• But to not have this ending would be to deny the people who were lost in my life.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
• But like many wars, this one never seems to reach a true ending.
  — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• For the cats, at least, this story does have a happy ending.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 3 May 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
• 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
• And there's no better time to assess this than at an ending.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 26 July 2023
• No spoilers, but the ending, which is both vague and abrupt, suggests a problem of scope.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
• And then there is the ending, which also has plusses and minuses.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
• This was not the kind of story that was going to tie itself up with a bow and a happy ending.
  — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Here, Hampton talks about what that cliffhanger ending could mean for the next season of the series.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024
• But there is little chance that the McGurk’s Bar case will have a similar ending.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Beginnings and endings, as well as the tops and tails of acts, are de-emphasized.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
• Momentum is hard to sustain, and endings are hard to nail.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024
• But the most impressive part is how López is able to balance the lightness and the dark, despite the ending of daylight.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2024
• In some ways, August is a month of endings, at least on television.
  — Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2023
• Three of Charlotte's offspring remained in the barn with Wilbur for a bitter-sweet ending.
  — Eplunus Colvin, Arkansas Online, 3 May 2023
• That story has a happy ending, at least from this county’s point of view.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 13 Aug. 2023
• They are said to be waiting for Thursday’s ending of Title 42 to make their move across the border.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 9 May 2023
• The ending, a good old-fashioned pro-wrestling-style monster beatdown, almost makes the whole thing worth it.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 7 May 2024