finishing touch
Example Sentences
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If you have an extra minute or two, you can add a small finishing touch — something that signals, to you, that you’re done.
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
De Jong delivered the finishing touch to give Barca a two-goal lead at the break.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
The Eastern League champions applied the finishing touch on Jauregui’s 12-yard run with 2:03 left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025
Freddie Freeman slammed a walk-off homer to lead off the bottom of the 18th, putting the finishing touch on one of the weirdest, wackiest, most mind-numbing contests ever staged in the Fall Classic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
As a finishing touch, she props up one of the framed prints, some Arabic calligraphy, on the side table.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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