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End up   /ɛnd əp/   Listen
End up

verb
1.
Finally be or do something.  Synonyms: fetch up, finish, finish up, land up, wind up.  "He wound up being unemployed and living at home again"






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"End up" Quotes from Famous Books



... natural," said I; "the mere look of the sky is sufficient to assure us of that. There is something behind it, you may be certain, though what it is I am sure I cannot say; possibly it may be a fresh outfly from some other point of the compass, or it may end up with a violent thunderstorm, though I do not think it ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood

... look at the attic." Then, deciding quickly,—"I am going to turn you all loose, and try to get back to our lines, as soon as we can gain some understanding of this death mystery, Bell. It looks as though the battle would end up somewhere about here, and I can hardly expect to fight the entire Confederate army with ten men and a sergeant. It's a dignified retreat for me. ...
— Love Under Fire • Randall Parrish

... "I don't want to end up badly with my first venture, and I have nowhere else to go. For to-day I think she will talk of going to see the dentist until she finds out how she ...
— Great Possessions • Mrs. Wilfrid Ward

... a trial to his mother every one knew. She wished him to keep his end up, and he did—and without spending all that his mother sent him, either. The great trouble was that at the end of his college course it was understood that Barkis intended studying medicine. When that crept out the neighbors sighed. They deprecated the resolve ...
— The Booming of Acre Hill - And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life • John Kendrick Bangs

... "they always end up like that. 'I am tired of talking to you,' they say—as if we were not tired of ...
— They and I • Jerome K. Jerome


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