last gasp
Example Sentences
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All these years later, Carrie waits for the show’s last gasp to wrestle with the question that has defined modern dating for millions of single people.
From Salon • Aug. 15, 2025
Some here fear it's on its last gasp.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2025
That sure was the last gasp of the 20th century, the future would say.
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2025
California has essentially gotten out of the business of building surface reservoirs though damming — “this is probably the last gasp of the concept of California surface reservoirs,” Gleick told me.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023
By 1860, the practice of bleeding a patient is the last gasp of a treatment that goes back to the "bodily humors" theory of the ancient Greeks.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
