How To Use Valediction In A Sentence
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In 1947 he made a wonderful picture which, though he continued to photograph for many more years, we might read as a valediction to his younger, splenetic self.
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He had just heard the huntmaster mark the occasion with a sombre valediction, but pledge to continue the tradition of hunting.
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Roth gives the best lines in valediction to a pro-war speechmaker, the unpolished Republican pol Albin Lentz, who is the president of Winesburg College.
Nasty, Brutish, and Short
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Is this transformation meant to be valediction or a malediction?
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Instead, more than two years after it was recorded, the album turns out to be their valediction.
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As far as I can tell, codes for friendly valediction seem to be a lot looser in the US.
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I may, however, not be the most reliable commentator on her valediction, having previously been largely unaware of Georgie's apparently impressive body of work.
Georgie Thompson says goodbye on Sky Sports … well, sort of | Martin Kelner
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It also timeously destroys Mr. Speaker Martin's self-serving and pompous valediction in which he sought to claim that if MPs had adopted proposals made last year, all would have been well, the implication being that he had been at the forefront of such changes and had been thwarted by the House.
Expenses: The Commons Exocets Itself
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She will give a touching valediction at graduation.
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We then leap forward to Esther's valediction, written seven years later.
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There was still time to make his last call on this nasty case, a kind of valediction his so-called insatiable curiosity made imperative.
TOO MANY MURDERS
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He took a few hours out of his precious time on the eve of going on holiday to compose the valediction.
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Beside me, Florence had raised her hand, as if in valediction, towards the place where once an altar had stood over a fallen king.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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They stampeded her on the Calle Rivera and unceremoniously held up Mr. North's impressive car before the hotel, while Jim Baggott, in an ancient silk hat and bibulously primed for the occasion, read an ungrammatical but fervent valediction.
The Fifth Ace
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From Little Brother's "Slow It Down" to Foreign Exchange's "Valediction" to the track above, "Ball and Chain," from his solo project, Phonte knows how to breathe new life into the term "love-hate relationship.
Stacia L. Brown: 5 Contemporary Soul Cyranos
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The broadcasts always ended with a spookily-cheery valediction of ‘Good-bye, dear listeners’ and a tinny recording of the Internationale.
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Otto simply raised a hand in valediction and spurred his horse on.
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I uttered my valedictions, and made my way out of there very, very quickly.
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Every lesson ended with the same valediction: ‘I will pray for you!’, which I found oddly comforting.
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The girl looked at me, slack-jawed, and didn't even say ‘Cheers’, the typical London valediction.
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Late as ever, I offer my valediction to people who, though most of them didn't know me, had a lot to do with stocking my fondest memories.
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The studio thought it would be a wonderful thing if the animators who had worked on the original came back for a kind of valediction, and worked on the new one.
Archive 2006-04-01
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Audiences that are breathless during the sensual desert tryst between Jen and her bandit lover Lo (Chang), later sob their farewells aloud to an old warrior who gives a lovely valediction.
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The broadcasts always ended with a spookily-cheery valediction of ‘Good-bye, dear listeners’ and a tinny recording of the Internationale.
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His last words might have been that century's valediction: ‘Great Lord and you, witnesses to my death, I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.’
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Verbal testimony connected his great poem of farewell and consolation, for example, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (with its famous image of the couple as “stiffe twin compasses”) with Donne’s departure for France in 1611.
The Biographical Fallacy
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Before I could respond - if there was anything I could say in reply to her valediction, which seemed unlikely - the train began to move.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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He gave a touching valediction at graduation.
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The gist of the story is that using big words like "valediction" (or "Ahmadinejad") can sometimes con an audience into thinking things make sense when in fact they don't.
Michael Showalter: Ahmadinejad Is a Long Word
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I tried my best to talk Sarah into coming to N. to ride out the valediction of Abel Kirschke with me, but she'd met him once before already, and not only had he rubbed her the wrong way, but she was furthermore morally opposed to the way he lived his life.
Sullen Months, Möbius Strips
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You obviously don't know what you're talking about, brother", he added in valediction, which is somewhat ironic, as Mr Hjelms was trying to explain how he knew what he was talking about.
The Economist: Daily news and views
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He waved in valediction and closed the door quickly.
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Ghost Dance is a book redolent of death and mortality, of eulogies and valedictions.
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The valediction of Abel Kirschke is one of the two or three funniest stories I have.
Sullen Months, Möbius Strips
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Fry said in a "valediction" on his website www. stephenfry.com that he intends to disconnect himself from his multimedia chatter on Twitter, blogs and websites to write a follow-up to his autobiography "Moab Is My Washpot.
Reuters: Top News
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This evening will be a valediction from his peers, a tribute to the man who changed the game.
