valediction

How To Use valediction In A Sentence

• He gave a touching valediction at graduation.
• The girl looked at me, slack-jawed, and didn't even say ‘Cheers’, the typical London valediction.
• Late as ever, I offer my valediction to people who, though most of them didn't know me, had a lot to do with stocking my fondest memories.
• The studio thought it would be a wonderful thing if the animators who had worked on the original came back for a kind of valediction, and worked on the new one. Archive 2006-04-01
• Audiences that are breathless during the sensual desert tryst between Jen and her bandit lover Lo (Chang), later sob their farewells aloud to an old warrior who gives a lovely valediction.
• The broadcasts always ended with a spookily-cheery valediction of ‘Good-bye, dear listeners’ and a tinny recording of the Internationale.
• His last words might have been that century's valediction: ‘Great Lord and you, witnesses to my death, I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.’
• Verbal testimony connected his great poem of farewell and consolation, for example, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (with its famous image of the couple as “stiffe twin compasses”) with Donne’s departure for France in 1611. The Biographical Fallacy
• Before I could respond - if there was anything I could say in reply to her valediction, which seemed unlikely - the train began to move. TIME OF THE WOLF
• Every lesson ended with the same valediction: ‘I will pray for you!’, which I found oddly comforting.