TERMINATE in a Sentence

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90 example sentences for TERMINATE, such as:

1. He has terminal lung cancer.
2. We met up at the bus terminal.
3. The Zoo is at the bus terminal.
4. She chose to have an early termination.
5. This affair was brought to a happy termination.

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 Meanings and Examples of TERMINATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
terminate
 v.  stop; bring to an end or halt
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  There may be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in prayer.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
2  In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of Chelles.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
3  But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to take any notice of this sad side of his success.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
4  To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the humane reality, to cause right to penetrate pacifically into the fact and the fact into right, that is the task of sages.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
5  de Treville thought of an expedient which might terminate it quietly.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
6  Go out this way," said she, opening a small private door, "and come back at eleven o'clock; we will then terminate this conversation.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE
7  How all this will terminate, I know not, but I had rather die than return shamefully, my purpose unfulfilled.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
8  This was understood to terminate the Course for the evening, and we emerged into the air with shrieks of intellectual victory.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
9  Few augured the possibility that the encounter could terminate well for the Disinherited Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  I was much astounded by this programme, though I remembered that Holmes had said to Stapleton on the night before that his visit would terminate next day.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
11  It seemed, however, to Edmond, who was hidden from his comrades by the inequalities of the ground, that at sixty paces from the harbor the marks ceased; nor did they terminate at any grotto.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
12  Mile after mile was, however, passed through the boundless woods, in this painful manner, without any prospect of a termination to their journey.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
13  But the spectacle which most concerned the young soldier was on the western bank of the lake, though quite near to its southern termination.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
14  It seemed as if, with the termination of the roar of artillery and the plunging of shot, nature had also seized the moment to assume her mildest and most captivating form.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
15  It was, however, maintained for hours, until they had reached a bay, nigh the northern termination of the lake.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The attack would terminate the relatively peaceful period after cold war.
2  Betraying a trust is a very quick and painful way to terminate a friendship.
3  She chose to have an early termination.
4  This affair was brought to a happy termination.
5  The landlord gave notice of the termination of tenancy.
6  You see that you are the end of all plans, and, wherever they may begin, the termination is the same.
7  Her next remark abruptly terminated the conversation.
8  A shout of laughter greeted his entrance; noisy at first, and terminating in Grace Poole's own goblin ha! ha!
9  If the input data specified it, the file will close and the process terminates.
10  We met up at the bus terminal.
11  He has terminal lung cancer.
12  The Italian political system has been judged to be in terminal crisis for decades.
13  The data entry terminal is connected to an online database while editing is taking place.
14  The Zoo is at the bus terminal.
15  The oil terminal is in the narrow strait that separates the island from the mainland.