How to Use endcap in a Sentence

endcap

noun
  • In many ways, the trial serves as the endcap to what has been called the Navy’s worst scandal in modern history.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2022
  • The only thing protecting our genes are the endcaps, called telomeres.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Visible on the southwestern flanks, the Pusch Ridge Wilderness makes an abrupt, stony endcap.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • It’s kind of the apotheosis of the endcap in digital heaven.
    David Doty, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • As lots of beloved beauty brands have proven over the last few years, Halloween makeup doesn't have to be the questionable greasepaint found on drugstore endcaps.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The endcap has since been changed: Carbone’s history was removed and Carbone sauce remained.
    Dallas News, 1 June 2022
  • The display of political creativity was found on an endcap in one of the arts and crafts retailer’s stores.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Sometimes that can really drive those CD numbers for big releases like a Taylor Swift, where a lot of folks might buy it on an endcap from a big box store.
    Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The start/stop accumulator endcap may have missing or loose bolts.
    USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Or maybe it’s over here, in the fiction section, but on an endcap with other special titles, or, heck, in yet another special place dedicated to highlighting staff favorites.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Wu drew inspiration from midcentury design, but added his own updated spin: exposed-wood frames (a first for Interior Define) outline slivers of negative space, while brass endcaps add a bit of jewelry-like luxe.
    Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 27 June 2019

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