(a.) Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(2) Thirty of the 32 women of the calcitonin group and 27 of 28 women of the calcium group finished treatment.
(3) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(4) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(5) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
(6) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
(7) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
(8) Both sides sought a decisive goal in a frenetic finish but ultimately the league leaders and the side fighting relegation shared the points and Mourinho wound up making dark allusions to the influence of officials .
(9) The Labor Department said its key index for finished goods was unchanged in July , because of a drop in energy costs.
(10) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
(11) Six Holstein (light-muscled type) and six Belgian Blue bulls (double-muscled type) were fed a finishing diet.
(12) The course of healing is finished during 3 weeks after coagulation and vaporaziation, and during 4 weeks after excision.
(13) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
(14) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(15) Agüero tried to retreive the situation – proof that City had more than enough finishers on hand to take advantage of momentary Burnley disarray – though, forced away from goal, he shot from a narrow angle and missed the target.
(16) Bojan Krkic had been snuffed out in his central role for Stoke and Hughes’s tweaks would have paid off if Diouf’s finishing had been more incisive.
(17) If I could get a shot, I was going to shoot it,” said Arcidiacono, who finished with 16 points and two assists, one more memorable than the other.
(18) For a start, why on earth was Platini being paid in February 2011 for work he did at Fifa, as Blatter’s special advisor, which finished nine years earlier?
(19) Everything on Tonight's the Night was recorded and mixed before On the Beach was started, but it was never finished or put into its complete order till later.
(20) "Richard only finished the music today," said Croall, who seemed deeply relieved that he'd made the deadline on Saturday.
Ruined
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Ruin
Example Sentences:
(1) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(2) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(3) It trickled back to me somehow that, ‘Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film!
(4) A procedure is described for the rapid determination of putrascine, spermine and spermidine in ruine and whole blood.
(5) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
(6) Conference, five years ago this motion would have ruined my life.
(7) But illegal action will only ruin any chance of dialogue with Tehran.
(8) The lid is fiddly to fit on to the cup, and smells so strongly of silicone it almost entirely ruins the taste of the coffee if you don’t remove it.
(9) In Niki Savva’s book The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government, Credlin has even been compared to Wallis Simpson, a deeply weird analogy.
(10) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
(11) Anuraj Sivarajah, online editor of the newspaper, said he was very clear who was to blame for the attacks and arson that has brought the newspaper near financial ruin.
(12) In 1995 8,000 people whose lives were ruined by the Montserrat volcano settled in Britain.
(13) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
(14) Even the avuncular governor of the Irish central bank, Professor Patrick Honohan, was forced to admit that pumping up to €70bn of taxpayers' money into the ruined banks "doesn't score highly on fairness" when he announced the fifth bailout on Thursday.
(15) Three thousand cheers for Will Self ( Has English Heritage ruined Stonehenge?
(16) But Denton’s attempts to apply extreme openness to others could cost the ruin of his company.
(17) His torturers accused him of passing on to British officials information about previous beatings at the hands of state officials and other human rights abuses, to ruin diplomatic relations between the two countries, he said.
(18) As Google states, it is definitely in the company’s best interest to get its first smartglass customers to behave, as “breaking the rules or being rude will not get businesses excited about Glass and will ruin it for other Explorers”.
(19) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
(20) But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer.