What is "terminated"

Usage examples of "terminated".

The hall was furnished with ugly, uncomfortable chairs each having one arm that terminated in a small computer with a display screen.

On those occasions she had terminated the relationship--until Ellyot Harding was introduced to Roy at the Eastern Conference of Cities.

Besides a lighter spear, the legionary soldier grasped in his right hand the formidable pilum, a ponderous javelin, whose utmost length was about six feet, and which was terminated by a massy triangular point of steel of eighteen inches.

The engagement was soon terminated by the total defeat and death of Allectus.

Beyond the northern and southern piles, a balustrade, terminated on either side by the thrones of the emperor and the patriarch, divided the nave from the choir.

But that staircase terminated in a prison: Alexius was seized, stripped, and loaded with chains.

Its skinny wrist terminated in a long, sensitively fingered hand which outspread was as large as Plennafrey's.

For hours, they picked their way forward through the maze of paths that terminated abruptly in mudflow, forcing them to double back and find a new path, then following that one forward until it, too, gave out.

The transport service on which he had booked his team had been terminated and their monies returned, but the refund alone was barely sufficient to bribe their way to the planet's surface, and at that, comparatively unsatisfactory, setdown point.

By now, eleven Turns since the Abomina­tion had terminated, some right-minded, thinking folk would realize that the Red Star had not changed course simply because three old engines had blown up in a crack on its surface!

Dorse had told him about the man's un­usual obsession relating to the fact that the MasterHarper had been found dead in the Aivas chamber at the same approxi­mate time that the Abomination had terminated itself.

The second level was separated by a perpendicular granite cliff, terminated at the top by an unequal edge at a height of at least 300 feet.

It was like the first because it rolled itself into a ball, and bristled with spines, and the second because it had sharp claws, a long slender snout which terminated in a bird's beak, and an extendible tongue, covered with little thorns which served to hold the insects.

But the engineer did not reply to the sailor except by proposing to examine the cliff more attentively, from the mouth of the river to the angle which terminated it on the north.

It was a marsh of which the extent, to the rounded coast which terminated the island at the southeast, was about twenty square miles.