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
In the aggregate the British successes in this region had in a week resulted in the capture of trenches which, if put end to end, would reach for a number of miles.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
If all the cabs in London were put end to end,'—he paused between the words, gravely,—'what do you think, Miss. Morgan, would be the total length?'
From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George
