NOUN
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the final statement in a verbal argument
she always gets the last word - elegance by virtue of being fashionable
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an authoritative statement
my doctor has the last word on the medicines I take
How To Use last word In A Sentence
- But although the service is called futureme, I predict it'll prove especially popular with wives eager to get the last word - however long it takes - with their blowhard spouses.
- Those with a hearty appetite for the whiz of bullets, the bang of artillery, dying declarations, famous last words, and eyewitness accounts of the face of battle will not be disappointed.
- He must have been very drunk, for at last the heavy sleep gripped him with the suddenness of a magic spell, and the last word lengthened itself into an interminable, noisy, in-drawn snore. Youth And Two Other Stories
- The last word must go to Nick, who has organized the whole project.
- Finally finishing her speech she uttered a few last words.
- When reviewers and prize jurors tout a repetitive style as "the last word in gnomic control," or a jumble of unsustained metaphor as "lyrical" writing, it is obvious that they, too, are having difficulty understanding what they read. A Reader's Manifesto
- Mozart's ‘last words’ were his attempt to produce the sound of the kettledrums in his Requiem.
- In 15 years, when it's even easier to analyze a DNA sample, might governments not see DNA as the last word in personal identification?
- My last word (I hope), is to once again refute your post at #115. Sound Politics: The soft bigotry of low expectations
- The Sermon on the Mount is the last word in Christian ethics.
