How to Use valedictory in a Sentence

valedictory

noun

• He received a very warm valedictory for his long career.
• At the time, few knew that Pelosi was making plans for the 2016 election to be her valedictory.
  — USA Today, 9 Apr. 2021
• Pelosi intends to spend the next two years in valedictory mode.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 18 Nov. 2022
• And as much as any of Williams’s shots, her aura during this valedictory tour has turned out to be a weapon for her.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• Now a team few thought would make it this far is back in the Elite Eight for a second straight season with a chance to spoil Krzyzewski’s valedictory tour.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 26 Mar. 2022
• The truth is this juggernaut of a series has been in a valedictory mood for some time now, and never more so than on the eve of its return.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2019
• Michael Love, who had been paroled from Folsom Prison five months earlier, came back to give the valedictory speech.
  — Aaron Morrison, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2023
• On Thursday, the White House emailed a brief statement to reporters from Trump that could mark a final, 67-word valedictory.
  — Author: Eli Stokols, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2021
• On Thursday, the White House e-mailed a brief statement to reporters from Trump that could mark a final, 67-word valedictory.
  — Eli Stokols, Star Tribune, 16 Jan. 2021
• There’s a valedictory sadness to these memories, but Tolstaya isn’t the type to pine.
  — Lev Grossman, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• His visit to the Bushwick Pool was part of a valedictory tour intended to spruce up his legacy.
  — Hunter Walker, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• After nearly 30 years on the air, Conan O’Brien bid farewell on Thursday night with a low-key valedictory lap.
  — Washington Post, 25 June 2021
• Such valedictory works are rarely among an author’s best.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
• That gives it time for at least one more world premiere, an all-Beethoven road show, and a European tour plus an entire valedictory season.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
• But for Vonn, there is a heavy element of valedictory to her presence—and performances—here.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• Two days before Sunday’s equinox, the full moon, beaming through the mist, spoke of a celestial valedictory to winter and a welcome to springtime.
  — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2022
• But that was before the young man gave an affecting valedictory, full of wisdom beyond his years.
  — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 4 July 2017
• Biden also looked back on the last few months with a valedictory for the advances during his first months in office against both the pandemic and unemployment.
  — Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• But that shouldn’t suggest the 76-year-old director has acquiesced into the valedictory phase of his creative life.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2022
• Sticky Fingers feels like part of a valedictory lap before whatever comes next.
  — Alan Light, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
• Some of us had maintained hope that a great valedictory role would eventually present itself to an actor who so deserved one.
  — Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2022
• At Tuesday’s briefing, Earnest gave a sentimental valedictory, and Obama dropped in to praise his spokesman.
  — Dana Milbank, The Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2017
• Gloriously shot, a mournful valedictory to the passing of an age.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Sep. 2022
• United, in what would prove to be Ferguson’s final season, cruised to a valedictory title.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
• Matthew Brun of Libertyville gave the valedictory address.
  — Kathy Routliffe, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2018
• Uniform in construction, with five three-line stanzas, the poems feel less like a series than like a single valedictory utterance.
  — Sara Lautman, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
• Justice Kennedy’s final opinions on the court had a valedictory quality.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• And even the blockbuster successes, the stories that make the valedictory lap that is GoFundMe’s homepage, are much more complicated than any viral marketer would care to admit.
  — Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2019
• The president has asked aides to explore a possible valedictory trip next week to the southern border as a means to highlight his immigration policies.
  — The Associated Press, NOLA.com, 8 Jan. 2021
• Elman, who founded the company in 1986 in a small Hong Kong office to supply Chinese steelmakers with iron ore, manganese and chrome, admitted as much in a valedictory note to investors.
  — Jack Farchy, Bloomberg.com, 15 May 2017

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