How to Use terminus in a Sentence

terminus

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cedar Key was once the terminus of Florida’s cross-state railroad and a busy port city.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The southern terminus is on the outskirts of Cincinnati.
    — John Pana, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The Summit Trailhead, located on the side of Oregon 6, is the southern terminus of the trail.
    — oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2020
  • At the eastern terminus, there are three switchbacks that take riders up the Huffman Dam for a great view.
    — John Pana, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Now, there could be a kind of justice in that power reaching its terminus.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The hub is expanding again, now as a new terminus of the huge HS2 high-speed rail project, which will connect the capital with points north.
    — Megan Gannon, Popular Science, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Now the district is home to new hotels, restaurants, outdoor concerts and skating rinks built to echo the old terminus of the Erie Canal.
    — WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The terminus is a boardwalk that offers bird-watching near a bay—look for pink flamingos.
    — Jonathan Olivier, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The military controls most of the route to the strategic town of Port Sudan on the Red Sea, home to an oil pipeline terminus, port and airport.
    — Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The parking garage at the Ashburn station, the line’s western terminus, swells with cars on the busiest mornings as commuters drive in from points west.
    — Justin George, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The trail will be closed from the Templeton Trail junction to the upper terminus, as well as areas 200 feet in any direction of the trail.
    — Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Two recent studies reported in the media focus on the terminus of glaciers—i.e., where the ice, the ocean and the ground come together.
    — Steven Koonin, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
  • About 30 people waited for the commuter rail on a platform at the northern terminus for the Orange Line.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Connecting the lake and the Mount Washington terminus would complete the job.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Excited chatter returned to a dim sum shop at the high-speed rail terminus.
    — Kanis Leung and Zen Soo, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The outdoorsy college town of Durango marks the southern terminus of this road trip.
    — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 30 Apr. 2022
  • In 2021, a five-year-old named Harvey Sutton reached the AT’s northern terminus, forsaking the first two weeks of kindergarten to do so.
    — Outside Online, 13 June 2022
  • Inspired by the flavors of the historic Silk Road, whose western terminus was Istanbul, Gallada is one of the buzziest restaurants to have opened in the city over the past year.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2024
  • 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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