Sentence examples for ended up serving time from inspiring English sources

"I had a cousin that ended up serving time," Mr. Burnham said, adding that many of his former comrades got into trouble when they returned home.

As the rave scene started to change toward the turn of the century, Jonny and Nick were caught and ended up serving time.

How did Zachary end up serving time as an "adult"?

But if you take that same item next-door in Florida, you've committed a felony: you could end up serving time in state prison and lose your right to vote.

But if you take that same item next-door in Florida, you've committed a felony: You could end up serving time in state prison and lose your right to vote.

Those people -- the bulk of the 4.4 million Americans stopped by police officers in cities like New York, or the millions profiled by ICE officers in cities from Los Angeles to Chicago -- may or may not end up serving time behind bars in a state or federal facility, but they are still confined and contained.

White-collar jail terms haven't historically called for much more than a decade behind bars and even the most notorious offenders have ended up serving far less time than they were sentenced.

Though he was forbidden to visit Heath in prison, Wojtowicz disobeyed the rules and ended up serving more prison time.

You can be sure that the director, Ivan Reitman, didn't mean that image as a metaphor for the times, but it ended up serving as one anyway.

(He ended up serving only half of that sentence).

The uprising helped ensure Mr. Barak's decline and Mr. Sharon's candidacy, and so what looked at the time like a final politically fatal move by the Likud leader has ended up serving him well.