Examples of “ending” in a Sentence

noun The final part of a story, event, or period of time.

• The film has a surprising ending.
• They wanted a happy ending to a difficult year.
• I didn't like the ending of the book, so I read it again.

noun A letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its grammatical form, such as "-s" or "-ed".

• English plural nouns usually take an "-s" ending.
• Add the ending "-ed" to most regular verbs to make the past tense.
• The teacher circled the wrong ending on the word in my sentence.