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valedictory
a valedictory address
relating to a farewell — especially a speech at graduation exercises
Without evincing any inclination to come in again, he there delivered his valedictory remarks.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
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His valedictory speech was entitled "To Be or Not to Be."
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Mr. Bounderby resumed, as a valedictory address.
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
Standing perpendicular at the same door and on different sides of its base, the lines of their valedictory arms, meeting at any point and forming any angle less than the sum of two right angles.
James Joyce -- Ulysses
It may be expected that on the eve of a migration which will consign us to a perfectly new existence,’ Mr. Micawber spoke as if they were going five hundred thousand miles, ’I should offer a few valedictory remarks to two such friends as I see before me.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
LaCountiss Spinner gives a tame, respectful valedictory speech, mostly thanking a lot of teachers; and Mayor Barry arrives, about an hour late, to present the Mayor’s Academic Achievement Award to three students on the stage, including Cedric.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
In this valedictory broadcast, flanked in the studio by Commandant Vandegrift and Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, John focused his remarks not on himself but on his comrades, the Marines.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
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He gave a last valedictory glance at the little room and its frozen occupants.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood’s End
Bjornstam was not respectfully valedictory.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
The good woman with a face like a white horse at the end of the bed makes a valedictory movement and turns to go.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
Rough and amiable noises came from it at night, and a good deal of singing about When I Die Don’t Bury Me at All; yet for three years Digams had won the valedictory and the Hugh Loizeau Medal in Experimental Surgery.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
When it was rumored, for example, that Adams might deliver a valedictory to Congress, the Aurora had questioned how possibly the "Duke of Braintree" could ever consider appearing before "a body in which his former friends are his enemies, and his former opponents the only persons who pity him."
David McCullough -- John Adams
We don’t need a valedictory."
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
There was shuffling and rustling around me, then Henry Reed was giving his valedictory address, "To Be or Not to Be."
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Micawber spoke as if they were going five hundred thousand miles, "I should offer a few valedictory remarks to two such friends as I see before me."