Sentence examples for ended up less from inspiring English sources

Her winning time was 1hr 59min 27.7sec, just 1.5sec ahead of Payne, 20, who ended up less than two seconds ahead of Patten, 21.

But as deals cratered or never got off the ground, the relationship between the camps ended up less a marriage than friends with benefits.

Instead, I was to write a modest article – 642 words, as it ended up, less than half the length I figured it merited – about the media riot that followed The Journal's revelation.

If America had been charged only with living up to the example of the rather unimpressive turkey — a passive, peaceful bird — we may have ended up less imperialistic, less belligerent, more, well, like Canada.

But literary buffs do concede that their hero wrote early about masturbation in Portnoy's Complaint (1969) and has ended up less jolly, obsessed with prostate cancer: "He's come full circle".

What use would it be for us to become a vague copy of reformist parties, which always end up as the bedfellows of the dominant class?" Despite such flights of revolutionary rhetoric, the Socialists ended up less as bedfellows of the dominant class than the dominant class themselves.

The meat cooks faster, and its outer layers end up less overdone".

To everyone who has solved today's crossword puzzle: Sorry, but that is no guarantee that you will end up less nutty than the rest of us.

The head-to-head Two films – both straddling the multiplex-specialised divide – fought for second place, ending up less than £15,000 apart for the weekend.

(Bunyan, with his anguished microscrupulosity, barely passes the first test; Denby, who ends up less onto himself than he thinks he is, flunks the second).

The major indexes saw early gains stall in the afternoon but rallied late, ending up less than a percent.