How to Use last resort in a Sentence

last resort

noun

• Wait It Out: As a last resort, wait for your queue to expire.
  — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2024
• The treatment was given as a last resort to save the children's lives.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• For hospital at home, CMS played the role of jump-starter of last resort.
  — James B. Rebitzer, STAT, 21 Aug. 2023
• Erin Ryan, a spokesperson for the city, said the city would use impounding as a last resort.
  — Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2024
• In terms of raising taxes, Beard said that would be a last resort.
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2024
• The soldier bit him as a last resort before falling to his death.
  — Michael Fiorentino, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2023
• There might be a need to enter the tunnels to rescue hostages, as a measure of last resort.
  — Foreign Affairs, 9 Nov. 2023
• The Act granted the Fed the power to serve as a lender of last resort during financial crises.
  — Bob Pisani, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
• As a last resort, it is auctioned off to a private buyer.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• For Sam, fists are a last resort; his first and best weapon is conversation.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
• So here’s the Allworth Advice: Both of these options should be treated as a last resort.
  — Amy Wagner and Steve Sprovach, The Enquirer, 16 Feb. 2023
• The same goes for any legal action that may be deemed necessary as a last resort.
  — Dean Kaplan, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Driving in a wildfire should be avoided at all costs and only as a last resort.
  — P. Kim Bui, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2023
• As a last resort, have some thick Ziploc bags as part of your emergency kit to drop your phone into.
  — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2024
• The floodwaters had even knocked out the control room’s batteries, the power source of last resort.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
• Ask to change teachers Switching teachers is a last resort.
  — Lisa Linnell-Olsen, Parents, 30 July 2024
• Every day, people go to homeless shelters as a place of last resort.
  — Aidan Gardiner, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• Performing surgery on a swaying, moving train could be done but was a last resort.
  — Aaron Stern, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2023
• The San Diego River is a stop of last resort for many unhoused people such as Waterman.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• But here’s the thing about asking for help in residency: you’re only supposed to do it as a last resort.
  — Anthony Chin-Quee, Men's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
• This is a last resort, only to be used when all other efforts to control finances have failed.
  — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Those who aren’t huge fans of filler and use the stuff sparingly—as a last resort, in some cases—tend to attract like-minded patients.
  — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 24 Sep. 2024
• Surgery is considered as a last resort and is reserved for cases of severe pain or damage to bones and joints.
  — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 28 July 2024
• As a last resort, the media brief argues, even adding public audio (as the Supreme Court has done in its oral arguments) would help.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2023
• At the center of the net is the IMF, which pools the resources of its membership and acts as a cooperative global lender of last resort.
  — Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• Impeachment used to be viewed as a last resort to be pursued in extreme cases of malfeasance.
  — Henry Olsen, National Review, 8 Sep. 2023
• As a last resort, back up both devices and restore them to their factory settings.
  — Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
• In a housing crisis that shows no end, the Chinese government is stepping in as a buyer of last resort.
  — Siyi Zhao, New York Times, 17 May 2024
• Even with these questions satisfied, The Times uses anonymous sources as a last resort.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• In an attempt to alleviate the sewers, officials turned to their outlets of last resort: releasing runoff mixed with human waste into Lake Michigan.
  — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024