[ UK /fˈɪniz/ ]
NOUN
  1. the concluding part of any performance
  2. the temporal end; the concluding time
    the market was up at the finish
    they were playing better at the close of the season
    the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell
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How To Use finis In A Sentence

  • The finishing line may be in sight but the final lap is shaping up to be an epic battle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Said hi also to a few of the guys from Aereogramme after they'd finished up, but wasn't actually sure of who was there from Chemikal Underground or what they look like, so I was basically floating around and looking glaikit until Mags pointed out the Newsnight crew, and the nice interviewer man figured out who I was. Archive 2007-02-01
  • You can't help thinking that the promise of that final inspection adds a little extra sparkle to the finished product. Times, Sunday Times
  • The band finished with a few slow dances.
  • Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01
  • The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
  • 'If he _has not fulfilled_ his promise to write,' but 'If he _did not write_ as he undertook to do' ([Greek: _egrapsen huposchomenos_]); nor 'If he _has commenced and finished_,' but 'If he _commenced and finished_' ([Greek: _arxamenos sunetelese_]). A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays
  • Consequently many penalties are cleared just before the finish. Times, Sunday Times
  • the game was finished in regulation time
  • The gnomes in the back room are putting the finishing touches to the new software.
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