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the latest possible moment
at the last minute the government changed the rules
money became available at the eleventh hour
How To Use last minute In A Sentence
- I thought I might be able to get a good deal on a hotel stay if I booked at the last minute to snatch a bargain on an unbooked room.
- At the last minute I decided to go, so I flung a few clothes together and left.
- In the end, despite these tight controls, the US-backed generals failed to win a majority of the vote, securing a plurality only through frenzied last minute stuffing of the ballot boxes.
- There's also a pretty good chance that we could have a last minute substitution for the cranberry relish.
- In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
- The plan/flight had to be aborted at the last minute.
- Brilliant teamwork and old fashioned grit got the team a last minute point.
- In the last minute of the game one player sees a red card. The Sun
- In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
- She had to pull out of the race at the last minute.