Example sentences for: valedictory

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

  • It ill behooves us to criticize its emptiness, for we all utter Good morning, Good afternoon, Goodby, How are you?, Hello , and numerous other salutational and valedictory remarks in the course of the day.

  • Wistful, wry, at times valedictory (the Monet poem playfully offers the poet's own epitaph), The Bounty is one of Walcott's most inviting volumes, incorporating some of his best work since The Star-Apple Kingdom of 1979.

  • In contrast, the rambling valedictory press conference last fall of Notre Dame's football coach, Lou Holtz, was criticized by one sportswriter for its "absence of any real sense of closure."

  • Having read Larry's valedictory, I am impressed more with his plaintive, rhetorical ploys than his substantive argument.

  • Well, a mere eight years after Reagan uttered his last valedictory words, it would seem that the Democrats did, in fact, have a chance at the presidency once again.


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