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EN[lɑːst] [-ɑːst] [læst] [-æst] [last] [-ast] [ɫast]
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    Examples of last in a Sentence

  • Examples of last
    1. His last comment is particularly worthy of mark.
    2. We marketed more this quarter already then all last year!
    3. The Chamber of Commerce says the number of megaverdicts for more than $100 million dropped to 2 last year, from 27 in 2000.
    4. Catherine was arrested by Sydney police last July and has been charged with 14 offences, including supplying the drugs methylamphetamine, ketamine and GHB.
    5. I started microblogging last week.
    6. Having scored a distribution deal for this microbudget film she shot with friends in Seattle over a handful of days last summer, Ms. Shelton embarked on a sort of victory lap of the festival circuit.
    7. Richardson had a microdiscectomy to repair a herniated disk, which bothered him for most of last season.
    8. But if the band’s three sold-out shows this week at the Bowery Ballroom are any indication, it is still basking in the microfame bestowed over the last year by zealous bloggers.
    9. Last week, he flew to Geneva to represent Canada at a United Nations gathering and this week he will be host to an international conference on microsimulation.
  • Examples of lasts
    1. Doing careful research before purchasing big-ticket items such as electronics, appliances, and automobiles can ensure that an investment lasts for many years.
    2. A Prince-Rupert's-drop, which is a tear of unannealed glass, lasts indefinitely, if you keep it from meddling hands; but break its tail off, and it explodes and resolves itself into powder.
    3. One gallon costs about $220, covers an acre and lasts through about two mowings.
    4. In France, a presidency lasts for five years.
  • Examples of lasted
    1. She kept to her bed while the fever lasted. ‎
    2. It found that the beneficial effects of chewing gum on heartburn lasted up to three hours, “with a more profound effect in refluxers than in controls.”
    3. Danny Higginbotham was the only survivor from the weekend win over Bolton - but the Stoke captain lasted just 10 minutes before being forced off injured. That meant a reshuffle to the visitors' defence who were the busier in a lacklustre first half.
    4. The war lasted much longer than predicted.
    5. These shoes have lasted a nice long time.
    6. I don't know why he was so impressed with our previous boss; he lasted all of ten days in the position.
    7. The exhibition lasted only from 6 to 6:26 p.m., the artists said, because a security guard, alerted by concerned bathroomgoers, showed up and tapped on Mr. Hartshorn’s shower curtain.
    8. I began a scream that lasted unintermittingly the whole time of the incision ... the air felt like a mass of minute but sharp and forked poniards [daggers] that were tearing the edges of the wound.”
  • Examples of lasting
    1. a sermon lasting two mortal hours
    2. Her words made a lasting impression on my mind.
    3. This Destruction of the Tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences, and so lasting, that I cant but consider it as an Epocha in History.
    4. An ideal son is his father's lasting lust.
    5. Busy angels spread / The lasting roll, recording what we say.
    6. The lasting frost winter-killed more critters then all predation
    7. He fears the dark, so he invented a longer lasting light bulb.
    8. In other experiment, dexamethasone resulted in hyperglycemic and hypoketonemic effect lasting 4 to 6 days in ketotic cows.
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