114 examples of endings in sentences

"Why," asks Charles Baxter, "do you always put the end of your stories first?" "You may be thankful," I replied, "that I do not make my remarks all endings.

Endings are so much more interesting than beginnings.

For example, the beginner in German must learn nouns, case endings, declension of adjectives, days of the week; in short, a vast number of new things all at once.

Because you boast poetic Grandsire, And rhyming kin, both Uncle and Sire, Dost think that none but their Descendings Can tickle folks with double endings?

"Weak" endings and "double" endings, i.e. lines which end either on a conjunction or proposition or some other unstressed word, or lines in which there is a syllable too manyabound in their plays.

"Weak" endings and "double" endings, i.e. lines which end either on a conjunction or proposition or some other unstressed word, or lines in which there is a syllable too manyabound in their plays.

His art is nowhere better seen than in his endings.

Happy endings and the Gissing of this period are so ill-assorted, that the 'reconciliations' at the close of both this novel and the next are to be regarded with considerable suspicion.

The long sonorous endings which constitute the declensions and conjugations of the most admired languages, and which seem to chime so well with the sublimity of the Greek, the majesty of the Latin, the sweetness of the Italian, the dignity of the Spanish, or the polish of the French, never had any place in English.

All other endings readily unite in sound either with the sharp or with the flat s, as they themselves are sharp or flat; and, to avoid an increase of syllables, we allow the final e mute to remain mute after that letter is added: thus, we always pronounce as monosyllables the words babes, blades, strifes, tithes, yokes, scales, names, canes, ropes, shores, plates, doves, and the like. OBS.

Others, (perhaps with more reason,) assume, that the most usual, regular, and proper endings for the plural, in these instances, are ies, oes, and ues: as, alkali, alkalies; halo, haloes; gnu, gnues; enemy, enemies.

4.The names of our poetic feet are all of them derived, by change of endings, from similar names used in Greek, and thence also in Latin; and, of course, English words and Greek or Latin, so related, are presumed to stand for things somewhat similar.

Our grammarians of the last century seem to have been more willing to encumber the language with syllabic endings, than to simplify it by avoiding them.

102; returns not answers, ii. 2, n. 3, 279; iii. 209; studied endings, v. 238, n. 6; publication by Mrs. Piozzi: See under Mrs. Thrale, Johnson, letters;to Allen, Edmund, iv.

413; studied endings, v. 238.

312, n. 5; formal endings of letters, criticises, v. 239; good, but a liar, iv.

R113449, 16Jun53, Art Shefte (A) Jazz breaks: tricks, blues, endings, etc.

Happy endings.

HALL, SARAH M. Happy endings.

Beatrice Reinfeld (W); 8Feb65; R355233. Instructive and practical endings from master chess.

Instructive and practical endings from master chess.

Lesson 4: Bishop v. knight endings.

MURTAGH COSGAR You've read many stories, Martin Douras, and you know many endings.

But it is clear that such happy endings, such conventional closes to fantastic tales, cannot be taken as evidences of serene tranquillity on the part of their maker; they merely show that he knew, as well as anyone else, how such stories ought to end.

Yet there can be no doubt that it is this combination of charming heroines and happy endings which has blinded the eyes of modern critics to everything else.

114 examples of  endings  in sentences