Sentence examples for had really ended from inspiring English sources

Sunday's game had really ended before it began.

Well into the 1940s, Americans wondered whether the hard times had really ended.

Mr. Fegan, the developer of 129 Lafayette, said the building was originally not marketed as being in SoHo "because we didn't want people to be disappointed when they discovered they had really ended up in Chinatown".

The cynic in me wondered if these struggles had really ended as neatly as the book suggests, or whether the Gores had tidied them up, consciously or not, for political consumption, to make some uplifting argument and to humanize a candidate widely scorned for not being human enough.

You try to rationalize that he was so disabled by his disease that his life had really ended a while ago.

Antonio Margarito is a tough guy, filled with pride and he may never fight again and if that is the case, Garcia should never train another fighter, ever, because he stood and watched an artist-chef with the feet of a ballet performer, a boxer with two red knives as hands, carve his own fighter's face across many rounds after the fight had really ended.

And if the good times have really ended, they were never that good to begin with.

Now Mr. Bush is staking his presidency, and history's judgment, on the American experiment in Iraq, on the bet that Iraqis will feel as if the occupation has really ended, and that together he and the new government can avoid their own Tet.

"What started as a tool for corporate good has really ended up in many cases as just another instrument to allow the siphoning of wealth that belongs to shareholders to senior managements," said Jonathan Cohen, portfolio manager at JHC Capital in Greenwich, Conn., and former chief of software and Internet research at Merrill Lynch.

Since dating business cycles is a retrospective exercise, there is not a lot riding on the uncertainty about whether the recession has really ended.

So now, these bush league antics of his have really ended up casting me and my judgment in a distinctly negative light.