last resort

noun

: something done only if nothing else works

Asking for more time should be our last resort.

Examples of last resort in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The letter said students should have ample room to express themselves even as schools announce and enforce reasonable content-neutral protest policies and armed police on campus should be a measure of last resort. —Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024

Thursday’s speakers included Victoria Roach, president of the California FAIR Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort. —Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 26 Apr. 2024

Other elements include righting the finances of the state’s Fair Access to Insurance Requirements plan, an insurer of last resort that has been deluged with new policyholders since insurers started pulling back from the market. —Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024

Senior men in Arab radical groups that attacked Israel were assassinated, from time to time, but Mossad officials have always told us that killings were a last resort. —Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024

Louisiana Citizens, the insurer of last resort for property owners in the state, was out of the question. —Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024

The same goes for any legal action that may be deemed necessary as a last resort. —Dean Kaplan, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

Aid officials have said that airdrops are not an efficient means of distributing aid and are a measure of last resort. —Tara Copp, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2024

If you’re lost and have no way to get help, following a drainage or stream downhill can be used as a last resort, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. —Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 15 Apr. 2024