Then his season came to a premature and painful end, right around the time everything else was going wrong with the Knicks.

My mother-in-law's death, seemed to have been a long, lingering and painful end, bravely borne.

When the play came to its painful end, Dorian went to see Sybil.

In the last scene, Danny, having come to the painful end of his investigation, looks sad, exhausted and relieved.

Andy McCluskey said it was about the painful end of a relationship.

He's been able to start up again, but the painful end of 11 years' work doesn't fade.

Poor Bunny--not long to live anyway and perhaps a painful end.

Ironically, her refusal to lose hope had brought her to a protracted, painful end.

But for now, utilities and ratepayers everywhere are finding painful loose ends to tie up.

Neither should this, to my mind, spell the painful end of muskrats.