Example sentences for: adieu

How can you use “adieu” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You can say adieu to all those marvelous anti-Belgian jokes the Dutch tell so well.

  • At any rate, goodbye really does not translate au revoir, Adieu, also borrowed intact into English, would do as the French equivalent of goodbye , and vice versa; but that equivalence gets us nowhere with au revoir , except to point up the fact that goodbye does not mean au revoir .

  • An editorial bids adieu to the old model of European integration premised on an omnipotent central bureaucracy.

  • “Do you mean that this is adieu?”

  • New York University's journalism department recently bade adieu to the millennium by picking the 20 th century's 100 greatest pieces of journalism . NYU's ranking of Jonathan Schell's 1982 book The Fate of the Earth --an overheated and self-edifying prophesy of nuclear disaster--at No.


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