How to Use terminal in a Sentence

terminal

1 of 2 adjective

• I was suffering from terminal boredom.
• She was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
• The cancer proved to be terminal, and Lacks passed away later that year at age 31.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
• This encounter was the first in-flight test of the spacecraft’s terminal tracking system.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
• While waiting, the crowd was rattled by the sound of a nearby airstrike, and a piece of shrapnel appeared to fall on the metal canopy of the terminal area.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Choose Easy Pick or Quick Pick to have the terminal randomly pick numbers for you.
  — The Enquirer, 3 July 2023
• Now, all that's left is phase two: demolishing the old, curved south terminal wing of the airport, which is no longer in use.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2024
• His struggle for form and fitness appeared, to many, to be terminal.
  — Graham Ruthven, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• But could the notion that life sucks be a starting point for discovery rather than a terminal epiphany?
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Field plays a woman coming to terms with the tragic news that her son has terminal cancer.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2022
• In affected vehicles, the loose bolt increases the chance of the ground terminal melting while the PTC is in use, which could lead to a fire.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 12 Dec. 2022
• Around the same time, her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and died less than a year later, in April of 1996.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
• These saline lakes in the Great Basin are terminal, meaning they are fed by rivers and are a hydrologic endpoint.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
• The port is spending $53 million to upgrade the terminal Carnival’s new ship will use.
  — Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• Then Alan, who’s been diagnosed with terminal cancer, jumps or falls or is pushed off the roof of his country estate, to his death.
  — Time, 27 Oct. 2022
• The corporation covers the $600 cost of the terminal and other hook-up gear required to mount the flat-panel antennas high enough to gain a clear view of the sky.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
• It’s located adjacent to the airport and a shuttle will get you to your terminal doors in about five minutes.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2023
• The Senate passed a bill to allow an adult diagnosed with a terminal illness to seek a prescription from a health-care provider to end his or her life.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
• Managing the physical and mental stress of a terminal illness is a full-time job.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• What was the most important part of playing someone with a terminal illness?
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 13 Oct. 2022
• The Great Salt Lake is a terminal lake, which means water only leaves it through evaporation.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
• The airport, one of the busiest in the country, is set to receive $27 million to help fund up to 16 new passenger boarding bridges, the walkways passengers use to get to and from a plane to the terminal gate.
  — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 15 Feb. 2024
• An ageing ad exec retires to care for his son who has terminal cancer.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 31 Oct. 2022
• Paula Tzouanakis Anderson, a friend of the family, shared the update on Facebook, adding that the cancer is now terminal.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2022
• Then, on March 6, the wing of one United plane clipped the wing of a second United plane at an adjacent gate as the first plane pulled away from the terminal, airline officials said.
  — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• While Canada allowed euthanasia six years ago, the practice has been limited to those with a terminal illness over the age of 18.
  — Fox News, 1 Dec. 2022
• In the future setting of the documentary, it's revealed that Camila died of a terminal illness.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2023
• At the terminal entrance, a gate agent paused while reviewing Wali’s documents and declared that the spelling of his name on the ticket didn’t match what was on his passport.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
• Like the station at 44th and Washington streets, people can use it to pick up and drop off passengers to reduce traffic jams on the terminal roadways.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
• But, on the whole, the contrast between inscrutable machines and terminal human mediocrity is once again supposed to be soothing.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023

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terminal

2 of 2 noun

• I will meet you outside the bus terminal.
• You will need to clean the corrosion off the battery terminals.
• You are not allowed in the terminal without a ticket.
• Ten terminals are connected to this server.
• Flight 1584 is now departing from Gate 6 in Terminal A.
• That is also when the first phase of the new terminal will open.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2023
• The port is also in the midst of planning a fourth cruise terminal.
  — John Wayne Ferguson, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Dec. 2023
• The Lancaster terminal was cleaned out, and the doors rolled down and locked.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
• The harbor terminal opened in 1926 and was the largest building of its kind across all the Great Lakes, according to HistoricDetroit.org.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2023
• As the president turned to watch dancers, draped in purple and black, perform on a stage in front of the terminal, Garcetti paused.
  — Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• In a store, call up Apple Pay or Google Pay on your smartphone and tap it against the payment terminal.
  — Ayesha Rascoe, NPR, 7 Apr. 2024
• Responsive data is fired back upward, and then down to the terminal from one of the set of arrays of Lego bricks.
  — Matt Day, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• Murphy went over to a Reuters terminal and pulled up the Wirecard stock listing.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• Last year, the terminal, Haiti’s largest, was closed over nearly seven weeks due to a gang blockade.
  — Evens Sanon and Emmanuel Igunza, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
• Flooding also forced the closure of one of the airport's three terminals.
  — Jake Offenhartz, Bobby Caina Calvan and Jennifer Peltz The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2023
• Flooding also forced the closure of one of the airport’s three terminals.
  — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
• The Texas airport — one of the busiest in the world — boasts more than 170 different gates across five different terminals.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2024
• Pickup kiosks are across from baggage claim, and the rental car pickup area is outside the terminal's west side.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 1 Aug. 2023
• In the future, the construction of Concourse C could add seven more passenger gates to the west side of the terminal.
  — James A. Jones Jr., Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
• Passengers were moved by bus to the terminal, the county spokesperson said.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
• She was joined by her husband Tom Ackerley at the terminal and stopped to chat and take selfies with fans.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 July 2023
• They were brought to the terminal to retrieve their belongings.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023
• The buildup eventually discharges with a spark that jumps the gap between two terminals, and the process begins again.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2023
• Protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war also shut down the terminal late last month.
  — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2023
• Those things will happen whether new export terminals are built or not.
  — The Editors, National Review, 30 Jan. 2024
• The bottoms also have a tie belt, which adds a subtle decoration that looks good in the terminal and the office.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2023
• But a trend is emerging called cloud gaming, where processing occurs at the edge, which frees the terminal from having to do it.
  — David Xie, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• The package was removed from the airport and the closed portion of the terminal reopened shortly before 2 p.m., the airport spokesperson said.
  — Sam Sweeney, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2023
• First, at a private terminal at a commercial airport such as LCY, the handling agent will escort you from the plane and whisk you away from the hordes of hoi polloi.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2024
• In Panama, each person must pay $60 to be bused to Costa Rica’s main terminal.
  — David Bolaños Daniele Volpe, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024