envoi

Example Sentences

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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)