sayonara
Example Sentences
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“I never really wanted to do one because I always thought it was like a bit of a farewell, like a sayonara, a swan song,” the lead singer and songwriter says.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Both Japan Bowl alumni and organizers wish him a fond sayonara; he will be greatly missed for his unique and informal contribution to international education in the United States.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2021
The boss has spoken: We’re leaving, pronto, sayonara, gone for good.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2019
For sports fans, this would still represent a savings from the average $100 cable bundle — adios, Hallmark Channel; sayonara, Nickelodeon — even with the added cost of a broadband Internet connection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2017
And how a low voice in the gloom Of the temple pine-trees leaning there Said sayonara to one somewhere Unseen in the shadow-haunted air?
From Sea Poems by Cale Young Rice