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Example sentences for "last words"

  • These were the vizier Khacan's last words.

  • Coming near him, the prince said, "It is all over, and I am glad you are witness of my last words.

  • I think I could venture to bet on it,' were Atlee's last words as he turned away.

  • Some say Hobbes's last words were: "I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at.

  • Some say, upon what authority I do not know, that the queen's last words were: "I never departed from the true church.

  • He was thinking of the Cure's last words to the people.

  • Many habitants had heard Louis Trudel's last words, and had passed them on with vehement exaggeration.

  • Those were the father's last words to the son.

  • My last words are, don't go out, and don't venture near the front windows till Monday comes.

  • I have only a few last words to say, and it's a habit of mine, as you know, to say my last words on my legs.

  • Tell me, David, what were my father's last words to you?

  • I tell you now because your brother's last words to me were, 'Take care of Penelope.

  • A long murmur expressive of dreadful suspense and hope received these last words of the trafficker in indulgences; a boundless horizon was opened for all manner of the blackest and most unheard-of felonies.

  • These were the brave fellow's last words.

  • The Queen's last words seemed to cause the Cardinal some uneasiness.

  • Imperturbable as ever, Herve did not seem to hear his father's last words.

  • The unformed childish characters traced these last words of farewell: "Good-by, dear.

  • She started to her feet, and looked round her incredulously, as if doubting whether she had rightly heard and rightly interpreted my last words.

  • While I was still looking at her, while my last words to her faltered on my lips, the horrible facilities for the perpetration of the double crime revealed themselves enticingly to my view.

  • Those were Benjamin's last words when we parted for the day.

  • I understood the reproach which my husband's last words conveyed; but I made no attempt to answer him.

  • So far as we are concerned, Mrs. Eustace, that unhappy man has said his last words.

  • So Delafield had come and gone, bringing Lord Lackington's last words, and the account of his funeral, or acting as intermediary in business matters between Julie and the Chantrey brothers.

  • Julie could hardly bear it, while all the time she, too, was secretly and breathlessly waiting for Warkworth's last words.

  • His sister's last words to Plouernel fell upon his ear.

  • At the moment that Samuel uttered these last words, he heard a knocking in a peculiar manner at the little bastard gate.

  • While the Cardinal was uttering these last words, the door opened and in stepped himself, the reverend Father Rodin.

  • In David's last words, as in the history of other servants of God, we see how they all found in God their unfailing portion, and a sure refuge.

  • But it has been remarked, that no human office-bearer ever came up to the divine standard, as set forth in David's last words.

  • Margaret, hear then my last words, and if they fail I will leave you.

  • How true were poor Susan's last words to him--"You want steadiness of principle and stability of purpose!

  • I think now of my poor sister Susan's last words: 'Margaret, you will never marry William Laud.

  • The trapper's last words to Neale were interesting.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "last words" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beet sugar; five sous; hurry back; last agreed; last autumn; last come; last look; last made; last month; last obliged; last reached; last resort; last season; last session; last spring; last summer; last term; last time; last volume; last week; last will; last winter; last years; not mentioned; pretty fair; thrown open