Terminating

Examples

• A is a steam pipe communicating with the boiler, B another pipe receiving steam from A through small holes and terminating in a cone. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He is terminating his work. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• By the candle she held was revealed a narrow passage, terminating in a narrow stair. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Its mouth is closed with a cork through which is passed a metallic rod, terminating above in a knob and connected below with the inner coating by a chain or a piece of tinfoil. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Lower and lower sagged the bow until it became necessary to stop the engine to prevent our flight terminating in a swift dive to the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They climbed high trees as nimbly as a squirrel, for they had strong extended claws before and behind, terminating in sharp points, and hooked. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• A shout of laughter greeted his entrance; noisy at first, and terminating in Grace Poole's own goblin ha! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• On the east side of the ridge, which is quite precipitous, is a ravine running first north, then westerly, terminating at Baker's Creek. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

Edited by Lenore