last resort

noun

: something done only if nothing else works

Asking for more time should be our last resort.

Examples of last resort in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This process is complicated by design — a design intended to protect universities from capricious, politically motivated meddling and to make the withdrawal of federal funding an option of last resort. —M. Gessen, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025

The Florida property insurance market is only now stabilizing after the past five years saw a series of carriers either going bust or cutting coverage across the state, while premiums shot up and the state's insurer of last resort, Citizens, ballooned in size. —Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025

Asking for more donations would be a last resort for them. —Danielle J. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2025

If State Farm and other companies leave California, millions of people without policies will likely turn to the state’s FAIR Plan, California’s last resort property insurer. —Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 11 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for last resort

• heliport
• nonsupport
• reexport
• teleport
• ultrashort
• abort
• airport
• alport
• athwart
• carport
• comport
• consort