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end up

VERB
  1. finally be or do something
    he wound up being unemployed and living at home again
    He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart

How To Use end up In A Sentence

  • Not bad for someone who failed to shine at school and feared he would end up in a coalyard. The Sun
  • In a second or three, take one high stakes football match, throw in that controversial miscall, stir it up with loads of angry fans, whisk in a few politicians, let it bake overnight and what you end up with is a tasty football ferrora (ph). CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2009
  • In response to the outcry, as well as to the fact that colorization did not end up being the boon colorizers thought it would be, the practice thankfully disappeared after only a couple of years.
  • We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
  • We did get a digital box so we could record programs and watch them at our leisure and not get tied to a schedule for tv programs but we end up recording so much that it always seems like I spend more time trying to watch tv and clear space in my digi box than write. On Efficiency, Or How To Get Everything Done As A Multi-Tasking Writer - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn
  • Apparently some divers end up having to buy extra suitcases to carry all the goodies home.
  • Of those who survive, about another 20% will end up in institutional care who weren't in that before the stroke.
  • The thing buried in the knicker drawer could end up on the coffee table. Times, Sunday Times
  • Did you send up my application?
  • We will end up having to cut any deal to save face. The Sun
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