1.   Better that it should end like this, when justice was not only done but manifestly seen by all to be done.

2.   April expected this surgery to end like the others, and she planned to take off just a week from her job as a Valencia elementary school teacher.

3.   A season could end like this, but not a hitch with the Yankees.

4.   All season long the Jets have opened on offense like ketchup oozing from a bottle but have ended like a match lit to tumbleweed.

5.   But since life is life, it ends like this.

6.   Every sketch he pitched began like a nursery rhyme and ended like a letter from Penthouse Forum.

7.   For a time, it looked as if the negotiations would end like those on an international treaty to ban land mines.

8.   For it to end like this is tough.

9.   For the people who labored so long to get softball into the Olympics, like international federation president Porter, it did end like a dream.

10.   He started it like Jean Van de Velde and ended it like Larry Mize.