put end to
Example Sentences
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Vatican archivists took more than 14 years to ready the 2 million documents, which are organized in boxes that officials say stretch for 350 yards when put end to end.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2020
“Will the court live up to its mandate to put end to impunity for such crimes against humanity?” he said.
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2018
It has been calculated that, if put end to end, the two rolls would make a strip more than eight feet long.
From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955
If all the cabs in London were put end to end,'—he paused between the words, gravely,—'what do you think, Miss. Morgan, would be the total length?'
From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George
Mr. G. interposed, adjured Saunderson to put end to scene by withdrawing expression objected to.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 11, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
