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Example sentences for "final"

Lexicographically close words:
fimbriate; fimbriated; fimbriation; fin; fina; finale; finales; finalist; finality; finall
  1. So ran my musings as I walked back to my lodgings, where presently I was joined by my solicitor, between whom and myself the final accounts were soon adjusted.

  2. Tortured as I was, I felt relieved when I came to this final decision, and I began to consider how to provide for my safety.

  3. I recall that it was broad daylight when I yielded to the temptation, and put the final touch to my sorrows by this act of self-degradation.

  4. After the United States conducted a final test series near Christmas Island in 1962, new discussions of ways to halt successive rounds of nuclear test programs were held.

  5. They noted, however, that "the final answer .

  6. Well--not quite selfish enough, I suppose; or too cautious to venture on a final plunge into the abyss.

  7. Are he and his possessions the final embodiment and satisfaction of your ambitious dreams?

  8. They drank, and set down their glasses; and exchanged a final look.

  9. Maybe it's the beginning of a final rise to health, but I'm so sick of prophesying that I won't say anything about it till it gets more confirmed.

  10. And from these successive approximations the final form of the thought may be more easily and surely distilled than if it had to be all formed in one's head before it could get even an approximate expression.

  11. The next letters were written during the final weeks of work on the book.

  12. Let it not be supposed that we are prejudging the question whether the final results of speculation will be friendly or hostile to the formulas of Christian thought.

  13. I feel very much the importance of making soon a final choice of my business in life.

  14. There are admirable descriptive pages, though the final philosophy fails to impress me much.

  15. If our real life is unconscious, I don't see how you can occupy in the final result a different place from the Stoics, for instance.

  16. I think, too, that much of your uneasiness comes from that to which you allude in your letter--your oscillatoriness, and your regarding each oscillation as something final as long as it lasts.

  17. He secretly determined to grace the final coup by a demonstration in which three bands were to play their part.

  18. The spring had been on the whole inclement, and now, with suddenness, winter came back for a final word.

  19. Over his shoulder he shot a final look at once precautionary and triumphant.

  20. This is but the hush before the final storm.

  21. In all the men lay down in ranks, just sheltered by the final fringe of pines.

  22. Perhaps they would ride away, or the army might come over the bridge, and there would be final salvation.

  23. In the final and general charge, regiments had become separated from brigades, companies from regiments.

  24. The speaker gave his final sentence; the town band crashed in determinedly with "Home, Sweet Home.

  25. Winder with the Stonewall Brigade, left to make a final feint at Harper's Ferry, was not in motion southward till much later.

  26. The day was declining, the final speaker drawing to an end, the throng beginning to shiver in the deepening cold.

  27. Still, whatever may be the immediate outcome of these experiments I am hopeful that they will only prove a step in further development towards the ideal and final perfection.

  28. The final adjustment was made sometimes with a few thin iron wires (though this is not always advisable) or with a closed secondary.

  29. I had been over to Orange, for my heart was sore over the quarrel I had had with Dora, and I was resolved to make one final effort towards reconciliation.

  30. That night, when all was again quiet in the village and the mourners no longer went about the streets, Lemuel, Ralph, and I went for a final visit to the new stone house.

  31. I have come to pay my final respects to Juliet Playfair," I announced; "for by the tokens up yonder she will soon be classed among our matrons.

  32. Gentlemen," he said, in his final speech to the court, "I feel that I owe an apology for not being able to attend these proceedings any further.

  33. Then, after years of wandering, Guido had determined to crown his love with a final achievement for Isolde's sake.

  34. Well, then, there came, probably almost two hundred years after your time, the Era of the Great Conquest of Nature, the final victory of Man and Machinery.

  35. Could she in three days' time learn the end of that strange mystery, know the final fate of the man who had first addressed her so unconventionally in a public print?

  36. She waited eagerly for that final epistle.

  37. On his final return he carried in his hand a bunch of flowers which had been presented to him at the country-house where his lessons were given.

  38. Berkeley, the gay doings in the reign of Elizabeth, and so downward through time to the final overthrow of the stern old pile.

  39. He could not even recollect for a minute or two how the final result had been produced.

  40. To- morrow I will drive to Knollsea, when we will make the final preparations.

  41. After our salaams, he gallops back to town to make the final arrangement for our entertainment.

  42. They were about to sail the next day for Inhambane, their final destination.

  43. Illustration: WHERE THE GLOVE GETS ITS SHAPE After inspection the glove goes to a row of men who fit it on a steam-heated brass hand, giving it its final shape and finish.

  44. The heel is trimmed, and then come the final sandpapering and blackening.

  45. This process is repeated several times; and at last when the final sliver comes out, although it looks almost the same as when it came from the carding-machine, its fibers are parallel.

  46. The Bruchus emerges, freshly clad, in its final form.

  47. In the present state of human knowledge, science can give no definite and final conclusions on these subjects, because of the limitations inherent in science.

  48. For these reasons the granary knows no final multiplication on the part of the despoiler.

  49. A sheet which, though formed, is at the first press-roll too fragile to carry its own weight, becomes possessed of a final strength and power that is almost incredible.

  50. The important part of the maternal task is completed by the end of May, when the shells are swollen by the expanding peas, which have reached their final growth, or are but little short of it.

  51. The final operation in the preliminary cleaning is performed by the "duster" proper, which is a conical revolving sieve.

  52. But war is only the final flower of an evil tree.

  53. There can be no final goal for human institutions; the best are those that most encourage progress toward others still better.

  54. The parable of the sun rising was designed to teach the great religious lesson of the final triumph of spiritual light over darkness, and the ultimate victory of life over death.

  55. On many papyri, and on the walls of tombs, scenes of the final judgment are frequently depicted.

  56. An ideograph was often preceded and followed by two phonetic signs, which respectively represented the initial and final sound of the name of the ideograph.

  57. Business letters frequently close with some final words, such as, Thanking you again for your kind assistance, I am .

  58. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as the final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.

  59. My dear Paul: I shall be very glad to accept your invitation to take dinner with you before you take final leave of the city.

  60. Miss Bishop and Miss Goodson had given their final coachings and their most valuable help.

  61. Planks and tubs were hastily cleared away from the field of action, and the rival candidates started on their final contest.

  62. As the last notes of the air on the mandoline died away, Winona swept her thumb over the strings of her guitar in a tremendous final chord.

  63. On the Thursday afternoon she gave everybody a final drilling.

  64. They were both glad to rest after the long final examinations and the exercises of the closing day, in which each of them had borne a conspicuous part.

  65. It appears to have been the custom with their Kings, so soon as they ascended the throne, to begin preparing their final resting place.

  66. The whole district is volcanic; and a few years before the final catastrophe, an earthquake had shaken Pompeii to its foundations; some of the buildings were much injured.

  67. The book was revised under the twenty-sixth dynasty, and then assumed its final definite form.

  68. We have death itself moulded and cast--the very last struggle and final agony brought before us.

  69. And now, among the different sentiments of the philosophers concerning the consequences of our final dissolution, may I not venture to declare my own?

  70. They were the tombs of wealthy and noble families, who spared neither labor nor money in beautifying their final habitations.

  71. That evening we stood on the brink of a precipice, over which the dark stream bounded in one final leap of full 300 feet.

  72. By another and final process the “Amar” is changed into “Poee-Poee.

  73. The labial melody with which the Typee girls carry on an ordinary conversation, giving a musical prolongation to the final syllable of every sentence, and chirping out some of the words with a liquid, bird-like accent, was singularly pleasing.

  74. But God, who had disseminated the Scriptures over Britain, in defiance of the rulers of the nation, was about to make use of their passions to remove the difficulties which opposed the final triumph of his plans.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "final" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; admissible; audition; authentic; binding; boundary; categorical; caudal; certain; circumstantial; clear; closing; collateral; coming; complete; compulsory; conclusive; consequent; consequential; contingent; convincing; crowning; culminating; cumulative; damning; decided; decisive; definite; definitive; derivative; determinate; determinative; documentary; documented; downright; ensuing; entailed; entire; eventual; evidential; exam; examination; explicit; express; extreme; eyewitness; factual; farewell; farthest; fatal; final; finishing; firsthand; fixed; flat; following; global; hearing; hearsay; hindmost; honor; imperative; implicit; imposed; incontrovertible; indicative; indirect; indisputable; irrefutable; irresistible; irreversible; irrevocable; lag; last; latest; limiting; mandated; mandatory; material; must; obligatory; oral; outright; overwhelming; parting; peremptory; perfect; polar; positive; prescriptive; presumptive; quiz; reliable; required; resultant; round; secondary; sequential; significant; straight; suggestive; supreme; sure; symptomatic; tail; telling; terminal; test; total; trial; ultimate; unconditional; undoubting; unequivocal; unhampered; unhesitating; unlimited; unmistakable; unmitigated; unqualified; unquestioning; unreserved; unrestricted; utter; valedictory; valid; weighty; whole


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    final adjustment; final appeal; final cause; final causes; final decision; final salvation; final settlement; final victory; finally decided; finally said; finally settled