famous last words

Example Sentences

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Despite the band’s success, Hodgson quit Supertramp after 1982’s “Famous Last Words” album.

From Los Angeles Times

Since this scene plays more than halfway through the second season in an episode called “Last Drink,” we recognize this as the bleakest version of “famous last words.”

From Salon

Then he added: "Famous last words."

From BBC

Thirty-odd millennia into the future, those are still famous last words.

From Los Angeles Times

But he went on: “Famous last words of Ned Rorem, crushed by a truck, gnawed by the pox, stung by wasps, in dire pain: ‘How do I look?’”

From New York Times