End up
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Both terms in one sentence
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Protect This House: Averted in "The Island" where the family could fight off the person invading their home, but they are too scared to even try and end up with all but one of them dead.
Source: Creator / Ray Bradbury -
Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony: Hoops and his friends try to christen a sailing ship that they fixed up by breaking a small nip of liquor on the bow, but they end up breaking a hole in the ship instead.
Source: Film / One Crazy Summer -
It backfires since the girls are actually wearing robes because they guessed that the guys would try that on them, and they end up drenched instead.
Source: Outdoor Bath Peeping
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