Example sentences for: last-ditch

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

  • Both the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times go with President Clinton's last-ditch attempt to generate support for the fast-track trade authority bill.

  • In many isolated regions, meanwhile, last-ditch defences in the form of round stone towers were built, a few of which are still inhabited today.

  • Zairian president Mobutu Sese Seko returned home from France in a last-ditch attempt to salvage some part of the power he once held.

  • Monday afternoon's signing ceremony (Beijing time)--the culmination of more than a decade of intermittent negotiations between the United States and China--comes after a week of intense, last-ditch efforts by Clinton envoys to ink a deal by the Nov. 30 WTO meeting in Seattle.

  • It is, for the most part, a novelization of the Menendez case, but the O.J. nonsense shadows it, and the whole incompetent O.J. prosecution team seems to have been flown in for a last-ditch battle with the forces of billable evil.


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