1. late
Too late.
It was bad enough that he usually came to work late, but coming in drunk was the last straw, and I'm going to have to let him go.
It's too late to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.
In late August, the Allied forces captured Paris.
When she was late, I felt like scolding her, but I held my tongue.
If your rent comes in past the fifth, a late charge will be added.
Churchill visited Stalin late in 1944.
He attended the high school for three years without missing a single day or being late.
Good morning. You're a bit late today, aren't you? "Yes, I ran into a bit of trouble."
Though he lives within a stone's throw of the school, he is often late.
I discovered too late that I left out the most important part of my speech.
We were held up for half an hour in the traffic and so we arrived late.
Let’s go now. Otherwise, we'll be late.
Your voice reminds me of my late grandmother.
The number of students who were late for school was much smaller than I had expected.
2. end
It's a dead end.
Killing your spouse is one way to end a marriage. However, it's frowned upon.
It may seem like a lot of trouble to go through, but in the end, you'll be happy you did it.
Whatever happens, I'll stick to my principles to the bitter end.
If I happen to end up going abroad, I'd probably go for France.
How did you end up on your own?
When I'm with a crying baby, I end up wanting to cry myself!
Japan's gold and foreign exchange reserves stood at $68.9 billion at the end of 1998, down from $77.0 billion a year earlier.
Even at the end of the nineteenth century, sailors in the British Navy were not permitted to use knives and forks because using them was considered a sign of weakness.
The baseball game was so exciting that everyone stayed until the very end.
The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape.
I hate it when I work late and end up missing an episode of a show I'm following.
In the end, because of the disease, he became unable to walk and had to use a motorized wheelchair to get around.
Relationships built on money will end when the money runs out.
World War One did not end quickly or easily.