How to Use terminus in a Sentence

terminus

noun
  • Stockholm is the terminus for the southbound train.
  • Geologists took samples from the terminus of the glacier.
  • The flow of water in a stream near the terminus of the Laohugou No.
    Reuters, CNN, 9 Nov. 2020
  • At the terminus of the two wings is a wet bar and tasting area.
    Lauren Beale, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • The park is also home to the eastern terminus of the Ice Age Trail.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2017
  • No land sat lower than this basin, the terminus of the Tule, Kaweah, Kings and Kern rivers.
    Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a guard at a gatehouse, the sole access point, at the terminus of a dead-end road.
    Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2018
  • Drop your bag then hop back on the #8 train for the 20-minute ride over the German border to the terminus at Weil am Rhein.
    Ryan Haase, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
  • On the map, Fort Adams lay at the terminus of the road, which soon left the town behind and entered thick forest.
    Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
  • In the end, the fact that the entire clan managed to make it to the terminus of the 2,200-mile slog at Maine's Mount Katahdin is remarkable.
    Kaelyn Lynch, Outside Online, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Of course, the pipeline years, when Valdez became the terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, had a role in that.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2021
  • There's way more to this area than just the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.
    Brian Kevin, Outside Online, 18 June 2020
  • So the action moved down the line to Martinsburg, the terminus of that B&O section.
    Fredrick Kunkle, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Shenzhen is home to some of the world’s largest ports and is a major terminus in trade between the U.S. and China.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Beatriz Muñoz, 38, cleaned trains for six months last year at the terminus of the Q line at 96th Street in Manhattan.
    New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The pace slowed for a while when the parade reached its terminus outside the historic Trocadero.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • An icy chute ten feet deep sits slightly downhill, at a precipice high above the glacier’s terminus.
    Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Once the bridge is opened, a lone gap will remain farther to the west and near the path’s current eastern terminus at Kings Road.
    Peter Marteka, courant.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Cedar Key was once the terminus of Florida’s cross-state railroad and a busy port city.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The main entrance remains open at the northern terminus of State Rt.
    James Ewinger, cleveland.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Take notes; this R&B boss won't be signing his terminus any time soon.
    Bianca Alysse, Billboard, 26 Dec. 2017
  • To make room for the gondola, the terminus of Fabyan’s Express will be moved about 180 feet downhill.
    Christopher Jensen, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The city was the historic terminus for jingling, snorting camel trains on trade routes later dubbed the Silk Road.
    The Economist, 6 June 2019
  • One day, at the Flushing subway terminus, a friend of Schifter’s saw 30 cabs waiting on fares.
    Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 15 May 2018
  • The southern terminus is on the outskirts of Cincinnati.
    John Pana, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Back then, the journey to the terminus was 10 to 15 kilometers by foot through steep, rocky terrain.
    The Atlantic, 6 June 2018
  • At a stop near the streetcar terminus, Deborah Williamson waits for her bus home, a one-hour ride.
    Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2017
  • The western terminus of the southwestern border is home to the world’s busiest land crossing.
    Daniel Wheaton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The Summit Trailhead, located on the side of Oregon 6, is the southern terminus of the trail.
    oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2020
  • As the trail nears its terminus at FR 618, tree cover increases with a dusting of piñon pine joining the mix of mesquite, scrub oak and sharp-spined crucifixion thorn.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2024

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