How to Use the end of the road in a Sentence

the end of the road

noun phrase
  • The Supreme Court loss appeared to be the end of the road.
    Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 4 June 2024
  • The Rangers could get Josh Jung back by the end of the road trip.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Now that the bill has passed, TikTok has said, this is not the end of the road.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
  • This version of Godzilla may have reached the end of the road.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2024
  • For patients on Tuesday’s flight, this is not the end of the road.
    Hala Gorani, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Much of the cast has been together for a decade, and this is the end of the road for many of them.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
  • However, that’s not the end of the road for this research.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024
  • But, finally, in 2023, Sir Elton reached the end of the road.
    Mark Sutherland, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Even back then Jason was set on season 3 being the end of the road from Ted and the gang.
    Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 1 June 2023
  • Divorce was not the end of the road for Simon and Fisher, who spent years in an on-and-off romance.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • While this appears to be the end of the road for the first version of the Guardians, the mid-credits scene teases a fun new lineup à la the comics.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 4 May 2023
  • The wall, however, offers no flood protection from the marsh in the back, where a big tide already floods the end of the road.
    Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • While many teammates went on to play in college, for most of us, the truth is that the end of high school marks the end of the road of competitive sports.
    Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
  • The caravan came to the end of the road, at another clearing with more markers.
    Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • At the end of the road, white crosses dotted a wooded area that bled into marshland.
    Caroline Gutman, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
  • This week’s trailer shows more of that, with some hefty stakes and the implication that this is the end of the road for Brock and his greasy, brain-hungry friend.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 8 June 2024
  • On this day, the lot is full of pickup trucks and boat trailers belonging to people who drove here, to the end of the road, for a day of fishing.
    Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
  • At the end of the road stands the barrier wall that fences off the refugee camp, and behind it, a concrete Israeli watchtower.
    Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But to a diver, or any explorer, the end of the road is where the real adventure begins.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • At the end of the road was our destination: a monastery hidden behind tall wooden doors, or rather, what used to be a monastery.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This isn’t the end of the road for Nantz in broadcasting, just calling college basketball games.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • While Halloween Ends might mark the end of the road for Curtis' character, Myers' reign of terror is far from over.
    Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Sign up This is probably not the end of the road for cryptocurrency itself.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
  • The difference between then and now is people are listening to me and others who are saying that AI is the end of the road.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
  • So even though the two ultimately walked away from each other, viewers were not convinced that that was the end of the road for Yoly and Xander.
    Temi Adebowale, Men's Health, 9 June 2023
  • Confidence: Medium Monday is the end of the road for the mild spell, with highs only in the mid-40s to lower 50s despite mainly sunny skies.
    David Streit, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Once there, the traveler has quite literally reached the end of the road, as only footpaths lead south across the mountains to Austria.
    Julia Boyd, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • For a movie that was supposed to be about the end of the road for Marvel Studios’ deep-space motley crew, mid-credits and post-credits scenes were all about beginnings.
    David Betancourt, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • While the Envoy’s present calendar accounts for programming through August, summer’s conclusion is not the end of the road.
    Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 27 July 2023
  • Denali Air, a sightseeing operator based outside the park, has provided the air service to lodges at the end of the road, transporting everything from passengers to milk.
    Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023

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