How to Use last-ditch in a Sentence

last-ditch

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• But a last-ditch appeal filed by her lawyers late Tuesday night (April 25) has bought her more time.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
• And what desperate straits or last-ditch hopes led to such an extreme step?
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• People lost at sea or aboard a sinking ship have used them as a last-ditch effort to call for help.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
• In the 14th minute, Franck Boli made a strong move into the box and beat the keeper on the right-footed strike, but a last-ditch effort by Alonso Aceves cleared the ball off the line.
  — oregonlive, 21 June 2023
• But in a last-ditch attempt to connect with Lily, the old woman recounts her life story.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2024
• Determined to save her family, Chris courts death in the darkest reaches of the ocean in a last-ditch effort as the plane teeters on the abyss.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• The group alleges Boeing led Ten Oaks down a deceptive path in a last-ditch effort to buy time and keep low prices.
  — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 14 Feb. 2024
• Mansfield brought in its fourth and final pitcher following the play but could not find any runs in a last-ditch effort at the plate in the top of the seventh.
  — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 14 May 2023
• Ward, in a last-ditch attempt at redemption in the eyes of his daughter, takes out the goon, and together the two tumble off the nearest cliff to their deaths.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 25 Feb. 2023
• Hence his last-ditch defense of Reagan as a pragmatist.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• In a last-ditch effort, Tanton’s network began its own efforts to whip votes.
  — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
• The loss was a stinging defeat for Ukraine, which up until the last minute was still rushing troops to the city in a desperate last-ditch attempt to hold the Russians off.
  — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024
• The two sides agreed Tuesday to seek mediation in a last-ditch effort to avert a strike, which has come to seem all but inevitable in recent days.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 12 July 2023
• In one last-ditch effort, Stone again visited his local Mute Swans.
  — Zane Wolf, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2024
• The meeting was ordered by a Delaware court in a last-ditch attempt to avoid a long and costly trial, scheduled to start in April.
  — Sarah Ellison, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• On Thursday, the appeals court rejected that last-ditch effort, clearing the way for the trial to begin.
  — William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• Pollock’s last-ditch offer came on draft day just as Torrey was about to leave the huddle at the Islanders table and announce Potvin’s name.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• But just as Arkansas threatened to take a commanding lead, BYU’s defense came up with a last-ditch effort to save the night.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• After nine years the surviving leaders set sail from Donegal in a last-ditch attempt to enlist Spain in their cause.
  — Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2024
• Behind on league payments and without key staff and facilities, the Breakers made two last-ditch attempts to save the team.
  — Joe Eachus, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• Matt Verminski: To me, walking into that shop was kind of like a last-ditch effort to quiet my mind.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• After losing her home and her boyfriend—a stellar Paapa Essiedu—as a result, Rona returns to the farm in Orkney where she was raised in a last-ditch effort to get sober.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
• The meal is a last-ditch effort from April to reconnect with her mother Joy, played by Clarkson, who is dying from breast cancer.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2024
• In a last-ditch effort to save money, the couple tried having their daughter stay at home while his wife was working, but that didn’t work out, either.
  — Byalena Botros, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2023
• When rhino poaching reached a crisis level in 2014, wildlife managers in southern Africa turned to a last-ditch defense.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 12 June 2023
• At the same time, though, Johnson is demonstrating how RIM, and by extension the whole industry, moved the needle out of sweaty last-ditch effort.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 May 2023
• The lawsuit, a last-ditch bid to delay the U.S. criminal trial, was settled earlier this month.
  — Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
• His rants suggest that his pleas have fallen on deaf ears, and the threat to abandon the fight in Bakhmut — the longest, fiercest battle in the war — are a last-ditch effort to cling to a prominent role in the invasion.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• His rants suggest that his pleas have fallen on deaf ears, and the threats to abandon the fight in Bakhmut — the longest, fiercest battle in the war — are a last-ditch effort to cling to a prominent role in the invasion.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
• Bixby, the goalkeeper coming up to add an extra body for one last-ditch effort, strategized about where to place herself.
  — oregonlive, 5 May 2023

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last ditch

2 of 2 noun

• But on the sixth, the last ditch effort was to get that crowd to stop what was happening in the building.
  — NBC News, 26 June 2022
• The ad comes as a last ditch effort with less than two weeks to go until Election Day.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2022
• In a last ditch attempt to get Sam caught, Jay and Rebecca try to bury the phone in his backyard in the middle of the night.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 6 Oct. 2020
• Erika and Gia then make a last ditch effort to be seen in a series that evokes the likes of Booksmart and Mean Girls.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 8 July 2022
• This week, Texas House Democrats fled the state in a last ditch effort to block a voting restrictions bill.
  — ABC News, 18 July 2021
• The Saints last ditch effort on a fourth and 17 at midfield was the perfect example.
  — Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 18 Oct. 2022
• And maybe this is a last ditch way of hoping that he doesn’t get prosecuted for.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 6 June 2022
• In a last ditch effort, Flemmings added to his Golden Boot status in the 89th minute and 10 minutes of extra time left.
  — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2020
• Lancaster made one final last ditch drive, but a 41-yard field goal attempt with no time left fell just short.
  — Matthew Stepp, star-telegram, 21 Oct. 2017
• Sweden did have a few nervous moments - not least when Andreas Granqvist had to make a last ditch clearance in the 80th minute - but the Swiss rarely looked like scoring.
  — SI.com, 3 July 2018
• Richardson even flew to Moscow on the eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in a last ditch effort to persuade Russia to make a trade.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 9 July 2022
• But Philae didn't pick up the call, likely never receiving the last ditch message.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2016
• Their apparent goal is to convince United officials to make a last ditch bid.
  — SI.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• That was until Mahrez stepped up from a set piece following a late foul, and the winger's last ditch intervention was enough to keep Leicester in the top half of the Premier League table.
  — SI.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Aberdeen took a 9-3 lead into the ninth and Oswald Peraza, who hit a leadoff home run two nights ago, belted a two-run shot for the Renegades in their last ditch effort.
  — Randy McRoberts, baltimoresun.com, 13 May 2021
• Perkins’ family disputed this and chalked it up to Bullock’s last ditch effort to save himself.
  — Krista M. Torralva, Dallas News, 15 July 2021
• In a last ditch move to delay the bill’s passage in the House on Thursday, Democrats filed dozens of amendments to the proposal, all of which were rejected by Republicans.
  — Anthony Izaguirre, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• There’s just one problem with the PAC-12 attempting expansion as a last ditch effort to survive, and it’s the fact the conference has very little leverage right now.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
• Couples therapy at this point is a last ditch effort to salvage the relationship, says Dr. Saltz.
  — Madeleine Burry, Health.com, 11 May 2018
• Seth Hurwitz was on a bike trip riding across Europe when news of his last ditch effort to save the long-suffering Woodstock 50 festival had leaked out.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 31 July 2019
• The new timeline comes as net neutrality advocates make a last ditch effort to undo the repeal.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
• Worse, when the stains finally were tested in 2008 - part of a last ditch appeal by Henning and Birch - the result showed they weren’t made by blood at all, but some inorganic substance.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 23 July 2019
• West Brom boss Alan Pardew is primed to submit to player power in a last ditch attempt to remain at the helm and propel the Baggies away from certain relegation.
  — SI.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Westminster then gave little resistance as Day scored on the next play on a run up the middle, wanting to get the ball back for a last ditch-effort to tie with a touchdown and two-point conversion.
  — Mike Peticca, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2019
• The visitors started the second half brightly, with Chiellini being forced to make two last ditch challenges to prevent Udinese getting a shot on goal.
  — SI.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Eventually, Trinity applies white mime makeup and performs in a last ditch effort to draw more eyes.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 23 Jan. 2022
• Zond 5 was simply a last ditch effort at snatching a national victory.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2018
• But the opposition voiced by Kimmel and McCain was the most decisive in the last ditch effort to replace Obamacare being ditched without ever coming up for a vote.
  — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Sensing that pressure, Gonzales got up from her seat and began whispering to other tribe members in a last ditch attempt at safety.
  — Demetrio Teniente, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
• The Panthers' last ditch hook-and-ladder attempt failed deep in their own territory and Cleveland escaped victorious.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022

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