ends up

VERB

become eventually; come to a close

Synonyms

STRONGEST

finish finish up stop wind up

WEAK

arrive finally cease come to a halt finish as turn out to be

Antonyms

STRONGEST

begin commence start

Example Sentences

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“Spirited Away” is a story of a girl, Chihiro, who wanders with her parents into a magical realm and ends up getting stuck there when her mother and father transform into pigs.

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2026

The risk for Alphabet is that it ends up being squeezed between cutting-edge expensive models from Anthropic and OpenAI and the cheaper tier of Chinese AI.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

Earlier, a kid in this year’s climb had told me: “There’ll be an email thread that goes around,” but confessed: “It always ends up just being everyone running towards it with no strategy whatsoever.”

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2026

“I’m a husband, a dad and businessman, and it ends up being a lot of hats but very little support, at times,” Jones said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

I wonder if everyone who shares a house sooner or later ends up at odds with their fellow residents.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank