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At long last   /æt lɔŋ læst/   Listen
At long last

adverb
1.
As the end result of a succession or process.  Synonyms: at last, finally, in the end, ultimately.  "At long last the winter was over"






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"At long last" Quotes from Famous Books



... of pain welling up inside him, struggling to break past his lips; felt a tremendous urge to writhe, to break away from the digging steel. His tongue seemed to be trembling, shivering; but no other part of his body, not even the smallest flicker of eyelash, betrayed him. At long last there came a voice, sounding as if from miles away, and the disgust in it was very ...
— Raiders Invisible • Desmond Winter Hall

... and that of a certain Cabinet Minister, accompanied by the legend "Which is Which?" It is not by actions of this kind that we shall win the good fight; but rather by a perseverance in reason combined with courtesy shall we attain our end, until at long last our Brother shall be free! As for the excellent but somewhat provincial reactionaries who still object to us that the Monkey differs fundamentally from the human race; that he is not possessed of human speech, and so forth, we can afford to smile at their waning authority. Modern ...
— On Something • H. Belloc

... passing over the Potomac, to the right and below them Hank Kuran could make out the twin Pentagons, symbols of a military that had at long last by its very efficiency eliminated itself. War had finally progressed to the point where even a minor nation, such as Cuba or Portugal, could completely destroy the whole planet. Eliminated wasn't quite the ...
— Combat • Dallas McCord Reynolds



Words linked to "At long last" :   finally, ultimately



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