Example sentences for: adieu

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

  • 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.

  • 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 .

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

  • It's all "bullets, bombs, and boobs--the biggest boob being Van Damme, natch" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). But "for those eager to bid adieu to their credibility for 82 minutes," at least the action "rarely flags" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ).

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


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