the ends of the earth

noun phrase

: the most remote places in the world
—used figuratively to suggest no limit to an effort
He would go to the ends of the earth to please her.
We will search the ends of the earth if we have to.

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He's used to being alone in wild spaces at the ends of the earth. — Heather Abbott, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026 In 2020, he was commissioned to make a commercial for a pet-products company, and the result was a thirteen-minute meditation on loss and love, starring a black cat in a trench coat who wanders the ends of the earth. — Dennis Zhou, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025 For travelers drawn to the ends of the earth, Patagonia offers a raw, dramatic expanse of wilderness split between Chile and Argentina. — Eric Sheets, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2025 When the Soviet Union collapsed, Atlanticists assumed that liberal democracy would naturally extend to the ends of the earth. — Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the ends of the earth

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