A tentative but definite beginning on mapping the genome.

Unlike past games, there is a definite beginning and end to the game.

Clarify a definite beginning and end for the task, and make clear how the effectiveness of the decision will be assessed.

Her other major works were "telenovelas," novels adapted into a series on television with a definite beginning and end.

Her extremity was the thing that absorbed us; she even, in tender thoughtfulness, diagnosed it from its definite beautiful beginning.

The periods of an outstanding achievement are normally characterized by definite beginning and ending dates.

Finite games have a definite beginning and ending.

The universe as we see it is a paradigm of our lives - a very definite beginning with an indefinite but inevitable end.

These objects have a definite beginning and end.

As with other preterites, it is used when the action has a definite beginning and end and has already been completed.