- present participle of finish.
finishing
Britishnoun
Vocabulary lists containing finishing
Engineering - Middle School
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Engineering - High School
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A penalty for pit-lane speeding cost Hamilton a further five seconds, and left him behind Leclerc at the end, the Ferraris finishing fourth and fifth.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
They just looked weird, said Josh Kreiter, a business student at the university, after finishing a round.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Villa gatecrashed the top five for the second time in three seasons, finishing fourth to comfortably secure entry to club football's elite competition for 2026-27.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Take this perfect steak, she says, and no—don’t prepare it in the conventional way, searing in a hot pan and finishing in the oven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
He told me he had soda left over from a Costco run and needed my help finishing it, and it’s nice to have a cold soda after digging dirt for two hours.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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