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[ adverb ] as the end result of a succession or process
Synonyms Examples "ultimately he had to give in" "at long last the winter was over" Used in print (Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)Caught at_last , he was sentenced to prison . (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)At_last , even the controlled Torrio was unable to hold still , and he tentatively suggested that O_'_Banion should take a percentage in the Stickney brothels in_return for one from his Cicero beer concession . (R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)Sam_Spade joins_forces with a band of adventurers in search of a priceless jeweled statue of a falcon ; but when the bird is found at_last , it turns_out to be a fake . (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San_Francisco to set_up the legal framework , finally and at_last , to rationalize war - to rationalize want and fear - out of the world : the United_Nations . (Harry Olesker, Impact....)At_last , sitting there , in the familiar surroundings , the truth began to sink_in . |
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