How To Use Send-off In A Sentence
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But I go in for lettin 'folks believe what they've got a mind to; an' when it cornea t 'buryin' 'em it's only square t 'give 'em th' sort of send-off that they'd really like.
The Aztec Treasure-House
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We had a send-off for them at the weekend and let off Chinese lanterns in their honour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fellow soldiers yesterday bombarded army chatrooms to talk about the send-off.
The Sun
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Fellow soldiers yesterday bombarded army chatrooms to talk about the send-off.
The Sun
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She was given a good send-off at the airport.
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The send-off also involved white horses and limos.
The Sun
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When CMDR Leggatt crossed the gangway for the last time, there was no piping party or salutes, but there was a final send-off.
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Neither of the two young batsmen thought to be top of the queue eventually to replace the aging Australian top order, were able to make a compelling case for early inclusion with Bresnan, occasionally wayward, turning Callum Ferguson inside out, and Shahzad snaring Usman Khawaja, offering him an unendearing send-off in the process.
Ashes 2010: England's back-up bowlers state claims against Australia A
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Fellow soldiers yesterday bombarded army chatrooms to talk about the send-off.
The Sun
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One of Calderdale's most colourful characters got the send-off he wanted when a barge carrying his coffin ferried him to his final resting place.
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But it was for Becky McDonald that the bell tolled loudest, her departure – a public debagging of inveterate liar Tracy Barlow "'Er medical records show that when she fell down my stairs … SHE WAS NOT PREGNANT" followed by a climactic airport dash in a leopard-print padded jacket – proving a fitting send-off for the reigning holder of soap's Golden Scrunchie for Indomitability In The Face Of Relentless Leisurewear.
World of Lather: a month in soap
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It had been an historic send-off in the medieval magnificence of the abbey's Gothic stone vaults.
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An elaborate send-off for the dead was also a social event, because a lavish funeral reflected on the living.
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About two dozen athletes joined Bush in the Rose Garden and he gave them a rousing White House send-off to next month's Olympic Games in China.
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He spends his send-off correcting the grammar of the patter song his patrons have written for him.
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The send-off also involved white horses and limos.
The Sun
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During a send-off presentation she received a bird bath from staff and a family of ceramic frogs, which she avidly collects, from the company.
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Locals confirmed that Pakistani soldiers were given a send-off party this weekend here in this town along the Afghan frontier.
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One of our dearly loved families is moving to Calgary, so we had a baseball-and-picnic send-off for them.
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Similarly, the glass is a tribute, the chuppah is a reminder, and the blessings are a send-off.
Creative Couplings
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Ben Maher gave British showjumping the perfect send-off towards London 2012 by claiming a stunning World Cup victory at Olympia.
Sport news in brief
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Today the man who won a British Empire Medal for his bravery was due to be given a hero's send-off by his old squadron, who planned to fly their helicopters overhead as he was laid to rest.
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Young Dick learned death — not the ordered, decent death of civilization, wherein doctors and nurses and hypodermics ease the stricken one into the darkness, and ceremony and function and flowers and undertaking institutions conspire to give a happy leave-taking and send-off to the departing shade, but sudden death, primitive death, ugly and ungarnished, like the death of a steer in the shambles or a fat swine stuck in the jugular.
CHAPTER V