the last word

Example Sentences

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“The judge had the last word. The community had the last word.”

From New York Times

He added, “Their resilience, courage, and perseverance have ensured that terror will never have the last word. The justice, fairness, and humanity that this defendant received in the United States stand in stark contrast to the cruelty, inhumanity, and indiscriminate violence touted by the terrorist organization he espoused.”

From Seattle Times

“For me it is enough to have the first and the last word, the middle we can discuss,” he said.

From The Guardian

The sound of the last word, the way I draw out the vowel, makes me hear how much I wanted that.

From Literature

Though the tracks from the “Get Back” project, retitled “Let It Be,” would be released later, in the spring of 1970, “Abbey Road” was the Beatles’ last word—the final recordings by the most popular and influential artists of the nineteen-sixties.

From The New Yorker