Sentence examples for final adieu from inspiring English sources

Sam Tomkins has already said goodbye to Wigan once but this could be his final adieu.

Six out of 10 people who left a job in the last six months sneaked out something they shouldn't have when they bid their final adieu.

The most affecting movement may be the final "Adieu," a pensive, elusive and harmonically quizzical rumination, though still spiked with virtuosic violin flights.

Evidently this was the familiar name of the Imperial Guard of Napoleon I, cited in an 1809 message to the emperor as la vieille Garde and repeated by him in his final adieu in 1814: "Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell".

For others, like Global Crossing's Gary Winnick, this is likely to be a more final adieu.

Colleagues and crew shook his hand and applauded as he bid his final adieus.

In the book's final section, "Adieu" ("Goodbye"), Rimbaud takes a nostalgic backward look at his past life and then moves on, declaring that his spiritual battle has been won.

In a final public adieu to postmodernism, Ralph Lemon transported himself into a multimedia star of a new constellation with his national tour of How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?

And when the big Frenchman brought his family to the center circle to say merci et adieu after the final whistle, there was not a dry eye in the stadium.

As the event wound down at 11, Mr. McCormack got a final laugh when he bid adieu to the partygoers and said, "There's a couple of big fairies waiting for you outside".

Paloma Herrera bids American audiences Adieu with a final performance as Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty in June, but her Argentinian farewell comes later in the year.