- present tense form of ensue (3rd person singular).
ensues
Americanverb
Etymology
Origin of ensues
Example Sentences
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That’s why I’ve already pre-ordered my copy of Tucker Max;s new book, Hilarity Ensues.
From Forbes • Feb. 7, 2012
Audrina Partridge: If Tucker Max’s new book, Hilarity Ensues, has taught me anything, it’ll be the first time I learned.
From Forbes • Feb. 7, 2012
No good Ensues when hatred is opposed to hate.
From Mary Stuart by Schiller, Friedrich
But at hand, at hand, Ensues his piteous and unpitied end; Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar for him: saints pray To have him suddenly convey'd from hence.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
Ensues more work with the pliers; George loads and fires and with one eye still at the telescope I give him: “Five o’clock!”
From Great Britain at War by Farnol, Jeffery
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