How to Use bitter end in a Sentence

bitter end

noun
  • And the shape of it shifts, right up to the bitter end.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But the group and LaPierre seem destined to see things through to the bitter end.
    Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • And a soccer match can be scoreless right up to the bitter end.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Theo smoked the cigarette to the bitter end, flipped the butt into the grass, and brushed the ashes off the front of her nightshirt.
    Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Nixon had his defenders in Congress, some of whom stayed with him to the bitter end.
    Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 15 June 2022
  • Monique was among the dwindling group of people who hadn’t found somewhere else to go by the bitter end, June 30.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
  • So kids are asleep on shoulders with earplugs in, and the parents are standing there until the bitter end.
    Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The game itself was basketball as theater, same as ever, all the way to the bitter end.
    Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The governor also invoked the words of his high school football coach, who told players to play the game to the bitter end.
    Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The Heat’s rebounding struggles continued to the bitter end of the series, this time by a 56-40 count.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 29 May 2021
  • Take Abbes, whose life the novelist chronicles to the bitter end.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021
  • In fact, the war may have convinced him of his good judgment: The Western threat on Russia’s doorstep means that Moscow has to fight on to the bitter end.
    Michael Kimmage, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Despite the bitter end of Tina, Haynes is trying to focus on the positive.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2022
  • But somebody that plays the games to the bitter end, tries to have it both ways, dances on the head of the pin, in my opinion, has forfeited their right to lead this country.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 May 2023
  • Tyler Huntley may be 1-3 as a starting quarterback, but he’s kept the Ravens in those games until the bitter end.
    Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 9 Dec. 2022
  • That was enough to stick around for until the increasingly bitter end.
    Michael Rand, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • In the end, the entire show comes full circle as each character meets a bitter end as a result of their greed and thirst for revenge.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Joe Paterno had his son Jay on staff for 17 years, 12 as the quarterbacks coach, there until the bitter end.
    Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2022
  • So much more than your average ghost story, Oculus is filled with mind games and jump scares that keep you on the edge of your seat until the bitter end.
    Leigh Hewett, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • While some owners may want Snyder out of the league, the notoriously litigious Snyder will sue the league and fight it in court to the bitter end.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2022
  • Dolly Parton is staying booked and busy until the bitter end.
    Vulture, 16 July 2023
  • Don’t get your board of advisors involved at the bitter end of bad decisions.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • And how two adoptive parents fought for their foster daughter until the bitter end.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
  • My advice to anyone who wants to hunt to the bitter end of any hunting season is to invest in high-quality wool base layers.
    Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Others are holding onto their hardware past the bitter end.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2022
  • As the year approaches its bitter end, for many Iranians their desperate pleas linger on.
    Nima Elbagir, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The café’s grab-and-go salads on refrigerated shelves—chicken Caesar; spinach with goat cheese and pine nuts—left me cold, and a butternut-squash soup was on the bitter end of earthy.
    Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2022
  • But a handful survived to the bitter end, maintaining their seats at the corporate table through a wily deployment of guts, guile and willpower.
    Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Churchill badly underestimated the Japanese threat and then, in the face of the siege of Singapore, demanded that British forces fight to the bitter end.
    Michael C. Desch, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The seesaw first quarter of 2022 came to a bitter end this week, with major stock indexes suffering their worst performance in two years.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022

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