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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
- 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.
- CB contd: Since Marx's word is not the last word, there is development in the ideas and Lenin has come in the Russian revolution, interpreting and improving the ideas of Marx to suit the objective conditions of Russian society. Archive 2006-07-01