From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishin the endin the endEVENTUALLYafter a period of time, or after everything has been done What did you decide in the end? → end
Examples from the Corpus
in the end• In the end, we decided to go to Florida.• These appeared, in the end, to be the dinosaurs.• But in the end, this is character study with too many underdeveloped characters.• Pope intercepted in the end zone.• Your microhabitat may be without occupants for a long time, but usually some animals will reach it in the end.• It seems logical to suppose that wilder and wilder swings must in the end get out of control.• That was why I had to break off our relationship in the end.• The next Super Bowl found more trouble in the end zone. 