Word Finder - last

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Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.

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“Eyes Wide Shut” was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick.

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Most recent, latest, last so far.

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I have received your note dated the 17th last, and am responding to say that [...]

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Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.

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He is the last person to be accused of theft.

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Being the only one remaining of its class.

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Japan is the last empire.

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Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.

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Lowest in rank or degree.

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the last prize

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Most recently.

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When we last met, he was based in Toronto.

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(sequence) after everything else; finally

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I'll go last.

Their last name is Anderson.

I hope not the way they did the last time.

These happy days did not last long.

Toward what place was the eagle flying when you last saw it?

Our last halt was under a wild cherry tree a short distance from the house.

The report came last night.

At last the happiest of happy moments arrived.

When you last went to the dentist.

At last, he could hold out no longer.

Military heroes of the last several centuries, such as the aforementioned Lafayette and Hamilton and Travis, were not bloodthirsty.

Do you remember what a happy time we had last Christmas?

I also have an offer to work at the law office where I worked last summer.

He had nearly finished this last task when a low growling was suddenly heard and the horse began to jump around and kick viciously with his heels.

My brother Simpson gave it to me last Sunday.

This is the first opportunity I have had to write to you since we came here last Monday.

Everyone probably knew about the incident with Dulce last night.

After one last look around to see if she was being watched, she started into the woods.

At last James Hogg said, "It's of no use; all we can do is to go home and tell the master that we have lost his whole flock."

At last, cold, hungry and weary, we reached our pier.

I tried flour also; but have at last found a mixture of rye and Indian meal most convenient and agreeable.

He had not finished the last verse before the young people began to get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery.

On the other hand, hadn't she put that idea into his head last night?

At last he saw a ray of light far ahead of him.

But at last his army was beaten; his men were scattered; and Tamerlane fled alone from the field of battle.

At last I fell asleep with a new doll and a white bear in my arms.

I had made my homeward journey, talking constantly to Miss Sullivan, not for the sake of talking, but determined to improve to the last minute.

Is he thinking of his last and narrow house?

Or maybe he was thinking about their conversation last night.

I told Morino last night that I would look at them before we left.

It was probably the last thing he expected to hear, and yet, he knew it was true.

Yet he was arrested last week for selling drugs to kids like little Nicholas over there?

He gave Allen a last threatening look and stalked off to the house.

After last night, she had decided to keep things professional between them.

It was the last thing he would want.

What a wicked thought to have about the man who had risked his life to protect her - not once, but a number of times in the last few days - and with so little to gain.

What happened between last night and tonight?

The lanterns were beginning to grow dim, and the Wizard poured the remaining oil from one into the other, so that the one light would last longer.

At last the day came for the ship to sail.

It is the man who rose to go out, and two young princes contended for the honor of giving him his shoes but at last agreed that each should offer him one.

This makes sense, so she spends her last $2000 in savings to buy ads.

Taken together, those findings suggest that almost all economic growth in the last 120-plus years was from technology.

It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

In the 1968 book The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant calculated that, "In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war."

All kinds of artists have come and gone in the last four centuries, popular in their time but forgotten now.

I was in the North, enjoying the last beautiful days of the summer of 1896, when I heard the news of my father's death.

It comes over me that in the last two or three pages of this chapter I have used figures which will turn the laugh against me.

Last Monday Simpson shot a pretty crane.

We got home last night.

Range after range of mountains began with a mixture of sharp green that gradually faded until the last range was wrapped in the haze of distance.

She had the job she had planned for the last three years.