put end to
Example Sentences
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Vatican archivists took more than 14 years to ready the 2 million documents, which are organized in boxes that officials say stretch for 350 yards when put end to end.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2020
“Will the court live up to its mandate to put end to impunity for such crimes against humanity?” he said.
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2018
It has been calculated that, if put end to end, the two rolls would make a strip more than eight feet long.
From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955
Clark found by actual measurement that the roots of a large gourd, if put end to end, extended over 25 kilometers, and Nobbe gives 520 meters for the roots of a wheat.
From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall
Yesterday, when I got on Briquette and made that fire-eater jump the two rain-barrels put end to end Dinky-Dunk told me I was too old to be taking a chance like that.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
