Example Sentences

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Unless something improbable should happen, these are our adieux.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

Second, the depression that follows the adieux of any quality series whose characters and stories merge with and enhance our lives for eight or twelve weeks every year.

From Inc • Jan. 4, 2013

Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill made a quick tour of the French Army front in the Vosges, then closed their friendliest of meetings with the friendliest adieux.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Mr. Hylan made his adieux to the City Hall.

From Time Magazine Archive

My Dear Mentor, Please make my adieux to your aunt, and exult within yourself, for ‘Lazy Laurence’ has gone to his grandpa, like the best of boys.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott