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Example sentences for: adieu

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“After much adieu, the TC by Masarati Sports Coupe has finally arrived.”
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.
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 ).
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 .
I once heard a Frenchman in Madrid tell a couple of Spanish shop clerks a joke that illustrates the difference between adieu `goodbye' and au revoir : At the Rio de Janeiro airport the planes of various countries were taking off one after another, and the terminal was crowded with passengers and with friends and relatives seeing loved ones off.