How to Use coda in a Sentence

coda

noun

• The movie's coda shows the main character as an adult 25 years later.
• Shostakovich’s son, Maxim, passed along a more plausible framing of the coda.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
• In the end, this leads to a novel that might be Murakami’s most navel-gazing work, and one that has the unmistakable feel of a coda.
  — Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
• The period marked a sad coda to Gainsbourg’s often mythic life, which began to dramatically unravel in the public eye.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 14 Oct. 2024
• But that’s not the end of the story, which has a melancholy coda in Greece.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2017
• The End of Me was published in 1968 and reads like a coda to the other two novels.
  — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
• In the coda, the cello keeps going up and up, all the way to the B-flat next to the highest note on the piano.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• Also add a coda at the end to help sort out people, their births and their deaths.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 3 Apr. 2017
• In a chilling coda on the same day that a report from the New Yorker claimed that Pres.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2017
• There is the reunion itself, and then the coda in which more is revealed.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
• Nicholas Kristof touched on this a bit in a column that could be a coda for the tense weekend that just passed.
  — Andrew Cohen, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2020
• The coda to this story is that the De Niro interview did go out.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2022
• King will write the last chapter of the series, which will end with a coda that's different from the one in the book.
  — Whitney Friedlander, CNN, 13 Sep. 2019
• Elling paused, then picked up the chorus one more time, a wistful coda.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
• His final scene, a kind of coda, painfully shows a man wrecked.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 26 June 2024
• For example, a coda was adorned with an extra click 4% of the time.
  — Warren Cornwall, science.org, 5 July 2024
• Starr had returned to the band and the clip was filmed with a live audience that came forward to join the group in singing its coda.
  — John Long, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2023
• For Knoll’s family, the killing was a cruel coda to her long life.
  — Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
• Three Doors Down on the turntable chanting their 2000 hit would furnish a fitting coda as the bash winds down.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• And the lyrics serve as an eerily prescient coda to Once & Always.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• And then the comedown, or, in Neil Young’s coda to Jim Morrison, life after the gold rush.
  — James Reich, SPIN, 31 Jan. 2023
• His book is a fitting coda to a career that screams to be a biopic (in fact, a script of Forte’s life is being shopped around).
  — Kevin Pang, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
• That film is about the death of love, with the mother-and-child reunion a heartbreaking cathartic coda to a tragedy.
  — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 29 Sep. 2017
• The media will cover it; who knows, maybe Gibney will shoot a coda for his film.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2021
• The coda of the episode is informative, chilling, and brief.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
• All that really did was the fact a taxing week would end with a coda of relief.
  — Ben Goessling, Star Tribune, 5 Oct. 2020
• The series will close with a new coda written by King himself.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• Rawlings should be given time and room to enjoy the coda to his career.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 28 Nov. 2019
• The defeat added a sour coda to what had otherwise been a good weekend for the Yankees.
  — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2016
• Talk about the perfect coda: Tower Records founder Russ Solomon died with a drink in his hand and a smart-aleck remark on his lips.
  — Dale Kasler and Bob Shallit, sacbee, 6 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 31 Dec 2024