How to Use grand finale in a Sentence

grand finale

noun
  • All of the performers came on stage for the opera's grand finale.
  • The grand finale is against the Texas Rangers on Sept. 26.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • The Modern Phoenix Home Tour is the grand finale of the 10-day event.
    Nicole Ludden, azcentral, 1 Feb. 2020
  • The biggest event was the year’s grand finale, the World Cup in Qatar.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Your last step is the grand finale: the call to action (CTA).
    Marc Hardgrove, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • An Evening at Casa Azul will be the grand finale on Oct. 15.
    Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The grand finale was the perfect way to cap off the weekend.
    Tabnie Dozier, Essence, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The grand finale, and the start of 2020, happens when fireworks light up the sky.
    Tirion Morris, azcentral, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Welsh said the hope is for a grand finale to be held in-person at the end of the six-week process.
    Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 21 Sep. 2020
  • But there are ways to boost the end of your meal into a grand finale.
    Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Stranger Things fans will have to wait a while longer for their grand finale.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Be sure to end with one of these Valentine's Day treats for the grand finale.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Of course, the grand finale also includes the burning of the Mona Lisa.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2023
  • This will be a grand finale that will lead to new premieres.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Well, The Voice is not playing around with their grand finale event.
    Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2021
  • League events are held there twice a month, with the season's grand finale set for May.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Dessert, the grand finale, is a yule log, or bûche de Noël -- the French version of a Christmas cake.
    Shivani Vora, CNN, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The grand finale takes place at 2 p.m. that day: the annual greasy pole climb.
    Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The search for the afikomen, a piece of matzo hidden earlier in the evening, is the Seder’s grand finale.
    Aliza Abarbanel, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The latter made for an epic grand finale at the brand's Spring 2019 Haute Couture show.
    Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Jan. 2019
  • In fact, day 25 comes with seven beauty finds for the grand finale.
    Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2023
  • With that, the game has its grand finale all set up, with two players ready to kill each other.
    Quinci Legardye, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2021
  • For the grand finale, Bini was able to go back to the basketball stunt and complete a slam dunk.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2021
  • There are a couple of mini drops, but the grand finale is about a 40-foot decline.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
  • The show was stopped about six minutes before the grand finale of the 25-minute show, officials said.
    Dana Branham, Dallas News, 5 July 2020
  • The parade's grand finale was a boy playing drums while being pulled on the bed of a trailer.
    Alison Steinbach, azcentral, 23 Mar. 2020
  • In the end, only one team can come out of the grand finale as winners, earning a life-changing cash prize in the process.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 18 June 2024
  • Then come the live playoffs followed by the semifinals and grand finale in mid to late May.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Maybe this is the grand finale of a slow coup d’état, after which some version of the gangs will manage to take power.
    Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Then, in the final challenge of the week on Tuesday, fish king Josh Niland will set a three-hour pressure test — a challenge which will decide the top three who will compete in the grand finale.
    Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 4 July 2024

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