How to Use ultimatum in a Sentence

ultimatum

noun

• She was given an ultimatum—work harder or lose her job.
• Basie followed through on the ultimatum and turned down the gig.
  — Larry Tye, TIME, 9 May 2024
• Which seems to bring us to an impasse—and back to Marko's ultimatum.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2020
• Rae gave Zae the ultimatum after two and a half years of dating.
  — Glamour, 9 Apr. 2022
• The headache for Ek set in last week when rock star Neil Young issued an ultimatum.
  — Abram Brown, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• For freed Black people, the ultimatum was stark: leave or die.
  — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• While one partner is ready to take the next step, the other isn’t quite sure, and an ultimatum is issued.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 24 Mar. 2022
• While one partner is ready to take the leap and gave their partner an ultimatum as a result, the other is on the fence.
  — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• That ultimatum came as a shock: Elettra had viewed this home in which she was raised by Joanie as her true bedrock.
  — Kenneth R. Rosen, Wired, 17 Nov. 2020
• Now, Brown has issued the same ultimatum to Mayock, coach Jon Gruden and the team.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
• The gate agent boarded the aircraft and issued the ultimatum.
  — Elliott Hester, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2021
• Then came the divorce ultimatum: Leave her husband, or lose the kids.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2019
• When Pearson was 15, his dad gave him a my-way-or-the-highway ultimatum: give up this punk rock stuff or get out of my house.
  — Hali Tauxe, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2024
• That, and the fact that Eggleston and the other woman had presented him with an ultimatum: to pick one of them.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2023
• And his wife had given him an ultimatum: no more boats.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• Her sergeant, a woman, gave the class a life-changing ultimatum.
  — Emmett Jones, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2021
• When they're made co-captains, Coach gives them an ultimatum: Bury the hatchet or lose their posts.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
• Fed up with the ultimatums around child-rearing, Nya stars de-Andreing her house in a rampage.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 June 2023
• Do not give your friend any kind of ultimatum, Zendegui says.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 1 Mar. 2019
• Chuck issued an ultimatum to Blair, asking her to meet him atop the building.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 June 2024
• Johnson issued the ultimatum in a Tuesday letter to the White House.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2023
• Willing to lay down the law and send an ultimatum to the centerpiece acquisition of the team?
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Legally, the board could have stood firm and refused the mayor’s ultimatum to dismiss Sawyer.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2023
• The United States and a dozen allies issued an ultimatum to the Houthis last week to cease their near-daily attacks.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• Although Walz met with some of the nurses, by all accounts the Mayo ultimatum became the final word on the matter.
  — Max Nesterak, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2024
• So Abby gave her an ultimatum — no slippers, no dance — and Joanne said, fine, no dance.
  — Martha Sorren, Woman's Day, 3 July 2019
• Nicky takes matters into her own hands after the retrieval of a weapon doesn’t go as planned, and Althea is faced with an ultimatum.
  — Washington Post, 12 May 2021
• Her grades were good, but halfway through her final year, the school gave her an ultimatum: school or acting.
  — Francesca Mari, Vogue, 12 July 2019
• Within the conversation, the Chicago native claims to have been presented with an ultimatum from Lyor Cohen in an attempt to force him into a 360-record deal.
  — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 7 Oct. 2024
• Beyond the likelihood of an unwanted outcome, ultimatums can also be a sneaky form of manipulation, even if that wasn’t your intention.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 3 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025