Sentence examples for ended up commanding from inspiring English sources
He took part in the first morning of the Normandy invasion in June 1944 and ended up commanding a 110-foot wooden sub-chaser.
While the struggling starter Phil Hughes's role remained as vexing as ever for the Yankees, it was Curtis Granderson who ended up commanding the most attention Thursday night, smashing three home runs in a 7-6 victoverover the Minnesota Twins.
Gianotti joined the organization back in 1987 and eventually ended up commanding the more than 30,000 scientists in the lab's ATLAS program -- that's the group that found the Higgs boson, a particle that had never been observed before.
Many of the young men who began the Civil War in relatively modest positions as midshipmen, ensigns or lieutenants ended up commanding ships within just a few years.
Under the guise of helping lame ducks, the normally uncharitable chaebol could well end up commanding yet more of South Korea's economy.
Galy Gay is an Irish-born waterfront porter in Kilkoa, India, who goes out one day to buy a fish for his dinner and ends up commanding a machine-gun unit in the Imperial Army on the Tibetan front.
I have no doubt Android tablets will actually end up commanding a larger tablet OS market share than Apple's iOS over time, but that will be a logical result of its distribution model and not "Android winning" (basically, Apple chooses not to focus on market share but on profit margins).
At the end, everything ended up perfect".
He ended up in command of the countries that are nowadays known as Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia (whose name derives from his own) and Peru, all of which he hoped to unite, together with still more regions, into a grand Latin American federation.
Hazen and Livingston had a political tussle over seniority; although Hazen lost the claim to seniority, he ended up in command of the combined regiment.
