ADVERB
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as the end result of a succession or process
ultimately he had to give in
at long last the winter was over
How To Use at last In A Sentence
- It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.
- I've given you the password to my heart in all its anagrammatic permutations; but you seem to insist this is nothing but a start; so herewith, at last comes the story of my first puppy— Spill
- When she at last rose it was with panting breath. Emily Fox-Seton
- Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Billy Budd
- They said that as their longer "taciturnity" might cause the ruin of his Majesty's affairs, they were at last compelled to break silence. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
- She described at last with extraordinary clearness, which is so often seen, though only for a moment, in such overwrought states, how Ivan had been nearly driven out of his mind during the last two months trying to save “the monster and murderer,” his brother. The Brothers Karamazov
- At last, after wise deliberation of the concerns of either side, she assumes the office of arbitress which is offered to her by both parties.
- But at last there came a Tuesday -- a gold-medal Tuesday for one frustrated amigo. MUSIC FOR BOYS
- One thing for certain though is that we have a squad full of quality and confidence, and that last season's treble is only a sign of things to come.
- The United States recognized the People's Republic of China at last.
