Example sentences for: last-minute

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

  • (In fairness, it does sometimes happen that they have little or no time to acquaint themselves with the script before reading it on air: stop-press reports flash up on the Autocue; urgent traffic bulletins or revised continuity announcements have to be read unpreviewed from a last-minute printout.)

  • Pay the caterer well in advance, and be sure to choose one who will penalize you heavily for a last-minute cancellation.

  • The second paragraph of the WP piece examines a regionally motivated disagreement over dairy subsidies that very nearly incited a last-minute, all-night filibuster.

  • All the papers say the $115 billion deal (the NYT says $108 billion) will be announced today--barring an unlikely last-minute offer from Bell South--and will likely be approved by the FCC.

  • Mainland officials were livid, seeing the initiatives as a last-minute British effort to rob the territory of its riches by saddling it with a European welfare system.


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