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Finish in sentence

1129 examples of Finish in a sentence

Just to finish, they asked me to play that guitar.
I'd like to finish up with one more story, a beautiful story.
And because we must all work to finish this story.
We have just to finish the story.
And the beauty of this, in perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.
Usain Bolt passes him, and as the runners come to the finish, you'll hear a beep as each man crosses the line.
That's the entire finish of the race.
If, however, I am right, whatever you do, don't keep it to yourself, OK? (Laughter) Make sure everybody knows that I got the answer right, because this is my big finish, OK.
But then they'd remember that you're but a mere human of ordinary, mortal intelligence that didn't finish university, and they'd kind of forgive you, and pet you like the dog.
And so when it was time for me to actually finish up high school, I started thinking about what I wanted to do, and just like probably most students, had no idea what that meant or what I wanted to do.
So unless we start asking our governments to think outside a little bit, to consider the global problems that will finish us all if we don't start considering them, then we can hardly blame them if what they carry on doing is looking inwards, if they still have minds that microscope rather than minds that telescope.
On January 26, 1997, Amel boarded the bus in Algiers where she was studying to go home and spend a Ramadan evening with her family, and would never finish law school.
And I'd like to finish with a quote from a great scientist called Peter Medawar.
However, I cannot finish without showing you a tech side.
Let me finish with just one last example.
After gathering these measurements, we told our participants that they would walk to a finish line while carrying extra weight in a sort of race.
But before they did that, we asked them to estimate the distance to the finish line.
People who were out of shape and unfit actually saw the distance to the finish line as significantly greater than people who were in better shape.
That led us to think that maybe people with strong motivations and strong goals to exercise might actually see the finish line as closer than people who have weaker motivations.
They had a strong goal to make it to the finish line.
But again, before we had them walk to the finish line, we had them estimate the distance.
How far away was the finish line?
Unfit individuals saw the distance as farther, saw the finish line as farther away, than people who were in better shape.
Even the most out of shape individuals saw the finish line as just as close, if not slightly closer, than people who were in better shape.
So our bodies can change how far away that finish line looks, but people who had committed to a manageable goal that they could accomplish in the near future and who believed that they were capable of meeting that goal actually saw the exercise as easier.
People that we trained in this strategy, we told them to focus their attention on the finish line, to avoid looking around, to imagine a spotlight was shining on that goal, and that everything around it was blurry and perhaps difficult to see.
You will notice the finish line, but you might also notice the garbage can off to the right, or the people and the lamp post off to the left.
People who kept their eyes on the prize saw the finish line as 30 percent closer than people who looked around as they naturally would.
So next, we told our participants, you are going to walk to the finish line while wearing extra weight.
We told them to lift their knees up high and walk to the finish line quickly.
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