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end up
verb
- copula to become eventually; turn out to be
he ended up a thief
- intr to arrive, esp by a circuitous or lengthy route or process
he ended up living in New Zealand
Idioms and Phrases
Arrive at, result in, finish. For example, He thought he'd end up living in the city , or We don't know how Nancy will end up . [First half of 1900s] Also see wind up .Example Sentences
“I played a lot of running back in youth ball,” Schwesinger said, “so you just kind of end up getting a feel for where the backs are going to go.”
Looking ahead, Mr Yeyati says that if Brazil and Argentina do end up enjoying a big rise in exports to the US, it could result in them getting higher tariffs from Trump.
This level of vulnerability is too much for Joe, though, so it’s no wonder that most of the people who see him this way end up dead.
The next step will be to halve the number of apprentices over the next year as their contracts finish, ending up with six by the end of this year.
We ended up somewhere quiet, a little inn lighted with backup power and kindness.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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