Sentence examples for proverbial end from inspiring English sources

But retirement is the proverbial end.

To the Greeks and Romans, the Pillars of Hercules were the proverbial end of the world.

But Big Sur was the proverbial end of the road, and it showed me how that kind of lifestyle can end in alcoholism.

There is no doubt the proprietors of said sale, are well-intentioned, likely trying to "balance" the church budget, make the proverbial ends meet, and wipe clean the nasty red-ink and ugly parenthesis of balance-sheet accounting.

A decade ago, to be independent was to make the best of getting the proverbial short end of the stick.

But, not surprisingly, lots of creepy right-wing types have got on board, using 9/11 as the proverbial thin end of a wedge".

A bureaucrat writes : I think Smallweed here, if I may say so, has, as it were, taken hold of the proverbial wrong end of, shall we say, the proverbial stick.

Hopefully this won't tear the proverbial hind-end out of our site and will be a great way to show off gadgets you might have or discuss problems and issues in an interesting way.

As well, ask them for feedback on your leadership, which will help your company tie up many of the proverbial loose ends.

(I admit that at first my colleagues and I had some misgivings about throwing brand-new MBA students in the proverbial deep-end. We worried, "Did they have the specific content expertise to do these projects?" But then we realized something important: developing a holistic mindset needs to start from Day One.

In one episode, Nev and Max aimlessly scour Detroit, providing plenty of striking images of the city's decay; in the end the proverbial Catfish turns out to be a vindictive cousin with a remarkable capacity for cruelty who actively sought the notoriety of appearing on the show.