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Use finish in a sentence

Sentences starting with finish

Finish your invention for making window-glass opaque? [5]

Sentences ending with finish

There isn't another thing among the ornaments and decorations that is comparable to it for beauty and finish. [5]
Change his coat... the ras..." he did not finish. [2]
Now I will tell you all about the tragedy, from start to finish. [5]
Two footmen, the princess' and his own, stood holding a shawl and a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. [2]
Please, dear C., not to embark for home until I have despatched these lines, which I will hasten to finish. [6]
Once I had no fear of the thunder, but now when I hear it I--" Her voice broke, and she began to cry, and could not finish. [5]
I can make no amends to you,"--she did not finish. [9]
She spoke, mingling most trifling details with the intimate secrets of her soul, and it seemed as if she could never finish. [2]
It is growing late, and Count Luigi is in great trouble lest midnight shall strike before the finish. [5]
And I--" 'But he wasn't allowed to finish. [5]

Short sentences using finish

It will finish them. [5]
To finish the statistics. [5]
Let me finish reading, please. [5]
Then I'll finish my supper. [11]
Let's finish the game. [11]
Peace, until I finish. [5]
She let him finish. [4]
This was the finish. [11]
I determined to finish this. [11]
Didn't finish yesterday. [5]

Sentences containing finish two or more times

Tracy finished writing his telegram and waited, still waited, and still waited, for that performance to finish, but there didn't seem to be any finish to it; so finally Tracy said: "Can't you take my telegram? [5]

More example sentences with the word finish in them

So you lose your temper, and come out in an article which you think is going to finish "Ananias," proving him a booby who doesn't know enough to understand even a lyceum-lecture, or else a person that tells lies. [6]
Then I suppose you'll finish your plan of coloring hen's eggs by feeding a peculiar diet to the hen? [5]
I dare say you will betray me to my father--" But Arsinoe did not finish her sentence, for Selene looked up at her with a mixture of suffering and alarm, and said: "I cannot be glad--I am in too much pain. [10]
Oh, dam-- But you finish it, dear, I am running short of vocabulary today. [5]
The reader who would finish this Essay, which I suspect to belong to an early period of Emerson's development, must be prepared to plunge into mysticism and lose himself at last in an Oriental apologue. [6]
She said she would finish them in the morning, and then her little French friend would arrive from New York--the surprise would follow; the surprise she had been working over for days. [5]
He might have worked it up with more art, and given it a finish which the narration now lacks, but I think best to insert it in its simplicity. [4]
Was it not wonderful that at a glance she should know him for the one man who could finish and perfect her work and establish it in perpetuity? [5]
Let us finish with what we are about now, before we take it up. [5]
Some of us will be shot before we finish this pilgrimage. [5]
The Minorite Ignatius, whom Father Benedictus had sent after him that he might finish the work which the latter had begun, was a man who lacked neither intellect nor eloquence; but he did not possess the fiery enthusiasm and aristocratic confidence of the dead man. [10]
Quis cus-(On the whole, as this quotation was not entirely new, and, being in a foreign language, might not be familiar to all the boarders, I thought I would not finish it. [6]
An elderly sergeant who had approached the officer while he was giving these explanations had waited in silence for him to finish speaking, but at this point, evidently not liking the officer's remark, interrupted him. [2]
Now take the wheel and finish the watch; and next time play fair, and you won't have to work your passage. [5]
And if I were--" He did not finish the sentence, for he felt her trembling. [9]
About midnight I went away, in company with the military attaches of the British, Italian, and American embassies, to finish with a late smoke. [5]
I have my way of thinking, you have yours; thus we each know what the other means; but after the tragedy comes the satyr play, and we may as well finish this agitating evening with an hour's friendly chat. [10]
The French cause was standing still, our King was standing still, there was no hint that by and by the Constable Richemont would come forward and take up the great work of Joan of Arc and finish it. [5]
Tuesday morning I was smart enough to finish and mail my long letter to you before breakfast--for I was suspecting that I would not have another spare moment during the day. [5]
Just as he was going to finish about the ram this friend of mine would recall that his grandfather had a niece who had a glass eye. [5]
In short, it was a pernicious revival of an obsolete state of affairs, competition, and if persisted in, involved nothing less than a fight to a finish with the army, the lobby of the Northeastern. [9]
There are only two million of them, anyway, and all of five months to finish the contract in. [5]
The British army, twenty-five thousand strong, admirably equipped, and supported by a powerful naval force, threatened to envelop our poor force, and finish the war in a stroke. [4]
The two triumphs together with finish the Standard-Bearer--modify him, anyway, to a certainty, and give the rest of us a chance for the future. [5]
Thou art going to the Soudan to finish the work Mehemet Ali began. [11]
He would like to sit up just to see how much more solemn and stupid it would become as the night went on; he wanted to tinker his skates, to mend his sled, to finish that chapter. [4]
I don't want to see her name in the paper again, alongside of that" (She did not finish the sentence. [6]
He gave orders to prepare for a fresh conflict to finish the enemy and did this not to deceive anyone, but because he knew that the enemy was beaten, as everyone who had taken part in the battle knew it. [2]
She had yet to learn in what manner they come to the finish who make a false start. [11]
Then he descended to finish his dreadful office; and there she remained alone--she that had had so many friends in the days when she was free, and had been so loved and so dear. [5]
The game was to finish for ten points. [11]
He made haste to finish buying the horses, and often became unreasonably angry with his servant and squadron quartermaster. [2]
He was striving to do the same thing now but, ere he could finish, his mind always reverted to thoughts of Kasana. [10]
He also began to build the famous Tower of Babel, but circumstances over which he had no control put it out of his power to finish it. [5]
At first we thought we could finish the story quite easily, and we set to work with confidence; but it soon began to appear that it was not a simple thing, but difficult and baffling. [5]
I will finish this gem to-morrow, and then I must do the Serapis I promised Theophilus, the high-priest. [10]
That will finish them," he said to Macavoy. [11]
Let society finish the tragedy if it liked; she was indifferent what came after. [5]
Every year, as the successive classes finish their course, there is a grand reunion of the former students, with an "exhibition," as it is called, in which the graduates of the year have an opportunity of showing their proficiency in the various branches taught. [6]
I didn't finish the story, though I re-began it in several new ways, and spent altogether 70,000 words on it, then gave it up and threw it aside. [5]
You can finish the rest early to-morrow morning before school. [10]
But there are the quarries--" Petrus did not let his companion finish his sentence, but interrupted him with all the warmth of youth, exclaiming: "And do you mean to say that fame cannot be won by the arts of building? [10]
They would spend the night high up among the snows, somewhere, and get up at two in the morning and finish the enterprise. [5]
At the finish the judge was silent a minute, turning over in his mind the shameful picture of Tom's flight over the footlights; then he said, as if musing aloud, "H'm--I don't understand it. [5]
The next morning the fair holidays were to end, school would begin and Adrian had intended to finish his tasks this evening; but the visit to the English riders had interfered, and he could not possibly appear before the rector without his exercise. [10]
So at last the end came like a sudden wind out of the north; and it was left to Guida Landresse de Landresse to fight the fight and finish the journey of womanhood alone. [11]
If we finish the blocks and pillars here exactly to the designs, they will take up no superfluous room in the ships, and no one will be able to deliver them so cheaply as we. [10]
Is it likely that you should finish so beautiful a structure with such care only to destroy it? [10]
I learned subsequently that our regular physician was not certain to finish me, when a consultation was called, which did the business. [4]
He had seen that look in the eyes of a crippled antelope which he was about to finish with his knife. [13]
They convinced her that it was a simple impossibility that Clement could come to Oxbow Village, on account of the great pressure of the work he had to keep him in the city, and the plans he must finish at any rate. [6]
One could see that he wished to pass through the rooms as quickly as possible, finish with the bows and greetings, and sit down to business in front of a map, where he would feel at home. [2]
He'd got all that coat of arms business fixed, so now he started in to finish up the rest of that part of the work, which was to plan out a mournful inscription--said Jim got to have one, like they all done. [5]
When he heard that a second tutor was to relieve Langethal of half his work, he exclaimed, with the greatest anxiety: "You do not know him, and yet intend to finish a work of education with him? [10]
How can one tell the story of the finish in cold-blooded preterites? [6]
I resolved to take a dog and hold him myself; suffocate him a little, and time him; suffocate him some more and then finish him. [5]
If he was suspected, and if the law stretched out its hand of steel to clutch him--what an ignominious end to it all; what a mean finish to life, to opportunity, to everything worth doing! [11]
The artist was sure he should be delighted with the beauty and finish of Newport. [4]
My army is strong and valiant, and eager to finish its work--march with me to Rheims and receive your crown. [5]
There was a stir in the ranks of the soldiers and it was evident that they were all hurrying--not as men hurry to do something they understand, but as people hurry to finish a necessary but unpleasant and incomprehensible task. [2]
Come off the steps, Susan Posey, and stop dusting the books,--I can finish them,--and tell me all abort your troubles. [6]
But the gracious solace of tears seemed to be denied her, and her grief, like her anger, was a dull ache, longing, like that, to finish itself with a fierce paroxysm, but wanting its natural outlet. [6]
There was a soft and finish about his manners which made whatever place he happened to be in seem for the moment a drawing room. [5]
He remained talking so long after dinner in the same strain as he had painted and written in that he could not finish his letter that night. [8]
And his adventure, so far as it concerned the house of Seleukus, ended with that kiss; for the lady Berenike had presently waked, and urged him to finish the portrait at his own house. [10]
The Scotch woman smiled, and only said, "Then I shall have time to finish this. [4]
We've bound and shipped 200,000 books; and by the 10th shall finish and ship the remaining 125,000 of the first edition. [5]
Ask her in," she said to the footman in a sad voice, as if saying: "Very well, finish me off. [2]
You imagine that she is going to begin a talk about her marriage and finish with some account of her father and mother. [5]
He was under, sentence of death last spring; he sat thinking, musing, several days--nobody knows what about; then he pulled himself together and set to work to finish that book, a colossal task for a dying man. [5]
I would have sent for a humbler practitioner, who would have given himself entirely to me, and told the other--who was no less a man than John Hunter--to go on and finish the dissection of his tiger. [3]
A loosely tied scarf round my arm showed that some one had lately left me, and would return to finish the bandaging. [11]
That is to say, a man would tell all of a story except the finish, then the others would try to supply the ending out of their own invention. [5]
I meant to sail earlier, but waited to finish some studies of what are called Family Hotels. [5]
It happened that Ruth was one evening deep in a line of investigation which she could not finish or understand without demonstration, and so eager was she in it, that it seemed as if she could not wait till the next day. [5]
It is not right to engage in a duel on the Sabbath--I could not approve of that myself; but to finish one that has been begun--that is a duty, let the day be what it may. [5]
I shall finish revising it in a few days or more, then Jean will type it. [5]
The finish was reached at last, the evolutions were complete, and a fine success, but I think that this result could have been achieved with fewer materials. [5]
The finish was reached at last, the evolutions were complete and a fine success; but I think that this result could have been achieved with fewer materials. [5]
He spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son was accustomed to understand him. [2]
Now mightn't we put on another layer of poultices and--" I did not finish, because I was interrupted. [5]
A bloomin' 'asty puddin' was that tournamong, but it wasn't so bloomin' 'asty that the Subadar and William Connor didn't finish what they started for to do when the day was young. [11]
As to the proviso to Section 114 I think it was put in to cover possible cases, by way of caution, and not to authorize the J. P. to go forward and finish up whatever might have been begun by him. [7]
It might be provincial, it might be derived from the Latin; so that it accurately represented her idea, she did not mind whence it came; but this care makes her style present the finish of a piece of mosaic. [14]
They were so pleased that they gave the regulation thirty days' notice, the required preparation for citizenship, and resolved to finish their days in this pleasant place. [5]
It seems a pity he did not finish, for after all his dreary former chapters of commonplace, he stopped just as he was in danger of becoming interesting. [5]
Some of these pictures are mosaics, and so artistically are their thousand particles of tinted glass or stone put together that the work has all the smoothness and finish of a painting. [5]
Only the inexplicable phenomena are miracles; and after a while--if the theologians will only permit us to finish the job --there won't be any inexplicable phenomena. [9]
A thing of perfect beauty and of absolute finish in every detail, it might pass for the work of genii who knew naught of the weaknesses and ills with which mankind are beset. [5]
Maybe, considerin' she's paid for her time, she is n't fur out o' the way in occoopyin' herself evenin's,--that--is, if so be she a'n't smart enough to finish up all her work in the daytime. [6]
I wrote 280 pages on a yarn called "Tom Sawyer Abroad," then took up the "Twins" again, destroyed the last half of the manuscript and re-wrote it in another form, and am going to continue it and finish it in Florence. [5]
I don't mind owning that I've got to finish a theme to be handed in tomorrow. [9]
By the end of summer Howells was in Europe, and Clemens, in Elmira, was trying to finish his Mississippi book, which was giving him a great deal of trouble. [5]
She was full of righteous wrath against the sanguinary persecutor, and holding her head high she went back into her sleeping-room to finish dressing. [10]
The inward rage of Murray Bradshaw at being interrupted just at the moment when he was, as he thought, about to cry checkmate and finish the first great game he had ever played may well be imagined. [6]
There was abundance of cold water to finish the feast with. [5]
Thank you,--thank you: now let me finish my story as quickly as I can. [10]
If it is not worth saying I will not finish the sentence. [6]
The travel-book did not finish easily, and more than once when he thought it completed he found it necessary to cut and add and change. [5]
I think the next 3 days will finish me. [5]

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