How to Use to/until the bitter end in a Sentence

to/until the bitter end

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• And the shape of it shifts, right up to the bitter end.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
• And a soccer match can be scoreless right up to the bitter end.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
• Here was a man who wouldn’t give in and would fight to the bitter end in every aspect of his life.
  — Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
• 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
• There is only one way left open to him: to cling to power until the bitter end.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2023
• Us rom-com lovers are very committed to watching things to the bitter end.
  — Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 25 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Putin appears set to remain in office until the bitter end.
  — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• 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
• Dolly Parton is staying booked and busy until the bitter end.
  — Vulture, 16 July 2023
• 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
• Still, for a team that set a franchise-record by scoring 33 points in the fourth quarter last Sunday, the Cowboys looked oddly out of sync in a variety of areas while trailing the Texans nearly to the bitter end.
  — Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2022
• A number of audience members began leaving before the movie ended given the extremely late hour, but the vast majority showed up for the helmer and stayed to applaud him right to the bitter end.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 1 Sep. 2022
• There are usually two types of people who wait until the bitter end before the April 15 tax deadline to file their returns: Those who owe money to the government and the folks who are flat-out procrastinators.
  — Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024
• Aside from relatively modest changes, these applications appeared in some form on every subsequent Palm OS device until the bitter end.
  — Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024