last straw
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The last straw may have come on April 22, when only four Yankees on the roster showed up at the Stadium for a voluntary workout on an off day. — Tom Verducci, SI.com, "Nine Innings: How Bryce Harper Is Trying to Revive His Season, What We Learned in the First Half and More," 9 July 2018 The last straw came four years in, when an undetected leak in the refrigerator rotted out the drywall and the wood beams beneath it. — New York Times, "The House That Got Away," 11 May 2018 And the last straw here is this allegation that came about last Thursday, and again. — Fox News, "Graham: Democrats are trying to destroy Kavanaugh's life," 17 Sep. 2018 But for Loeb, the last straw was a September paper by Cambridge University's Roman Rafikov (timestamp 28:39). — Rob Reid, Ars Technica, "Nailing down the nature of ‘Oumuamua—it’s probably a comet, but…," 29 Nov. 2018 The last straw may have come when the group sued to desegregate two school districts. — Jeff Amy, The Seattle Times, "Lawyer in civil rights struggle, Michael Trister, dies at 77," 30 Oct. 2018 The Helsinki meeting took place just two weeks after the ABC interview, and Trump’s performance there could have been the last straw for Cohen. — Alex Ward, Vox, "Cohen’s lawyer claims the flip happened because of the Trump-Putin meeting," 22 Aug. 2018 While O’Hara would eventually beat that rap, for the Narragansett Park investors, the indictment was the last straw. — Richard E. Farley, Town & Country, "The Great American Racetrack War," 9 June 2017 For Bumgarner, the three-time World Series champ and MVP of the 2014 Series, that might be the last straw. — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, "Giants’ Madison Bumgarner: Baseball rule changes ‘kind of getting out of hand’," 25 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'last straw.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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