envoi
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
If I was stopped now and then by Crimp’s more mystifying conceits — a Borscht Belt envoi?
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022
There’s a quote I love, a kind of mantra I repeat to myself in the face of great loss, that I’ll leave with you as an envoi to this exchange.
From Slate • Sep. 11, 2021
An environmental envoi, perhaps, with Buzz washed up on a beach alongside other jetsam, or clogging the gullet of a whale?
From The New Yorker • Jun. 21, 2019
Shakespeare is even braver than Chaucer in invoking this paradox, for he sometimes has his characters themselves deliver the envoi.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2014
It chose one of the first evenings of April, when a delicate, pastel-tinted sunset was concluding the day as gracefully as the envoi of a poem.
From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.