valedictoryin a sentence
- a valedictory address
- He was looking out over the hundreds of empty seats—he appeared to be a little blinded by the pickup truck's headlights, but he needed the light in order to see his valedictory speech, which he was reading.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- His valedictory speech was entitled "To Be or Not to Be."† (source)
- 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."† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- He gave a last valedictory glance at the little room and its frozen occupants.† (source)
- valedictory remarks before parting
- a suitable valedictory gesture
- JUST TELL THE FACULTY AND THE HEADMASTER THAT THE VOICE IS BUSY—REVISING HIS VALEDICTORY!† (source)
- courage to offer as a valedictory only these words: "I am not the head of this class.† (source)
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- There was shuffling and rustling around me, then Henry Reed was giving his valedictory address, "To Be or Not to Be."† (source)
- The good woman with a face like a white horse at the end of the bed makes a valedictory movement and turns to go.† (source)
- Well—" Bjornstam was not respectfully valedictory.† (source)
- Mr. Bounderby resumed, as a valedictory address.† (source)
- Without evincing any inclination to come in again, he there delivered his valedictory remarks.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- We don't need a valedictory.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
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