How to Use finality in a Sentence

finality

noun
  • And that makes the finality of it all kind of hit you like a ton of bricks.
    Mark Maske, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2021
  • So there was a sense of finality.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
  • This will not be the finality of our seasons from here on out.
    Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 28 May 2022
  • In the past a report like this would give some sense of finality.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Now the due date has passed, and his letters reek of finality.
    David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • But the clean finality felt right.
    Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But there’s a greater chance for some real finality.
    David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026
  • In the last moments of the series, there was this sense of finality to it.
    Giana Levy, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
  • For the first time in years, there is a happy finality to the season.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • But that doesn’t make the finality of it any easier to deal with.
    Chris Nashawaty, Vanity Fair, 16 Feb. 2026
  • On his mother’s floor, the doors open and he is struck by the horror of finality.
    David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Cutler’s career has a sense of finality to it, even at his younger age.
    Mark Maske, The Denver Post, 8 May 2017
  • Cutler's career has a sense of finality to it, even at his younger age.
    Mark Maske, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
  • There's no finality, there's no closure, there's none of that.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The last time there was no sense of the moment, sense of finality, sense of closure.
    Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Pinales said neither lawyer had any idea that finality would come the next morning.
    Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 22 May 2024
  • Nothing but the cold, hard sense of finality.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • But for Bichette, the sense of finality here is deeper.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Tenaglia says her quest is driven by the quality of the work, and the sense of finality of it.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2019
  • His exit from the makeshift hospital does seem to have a hint of finality to it, though.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Yet the score does not reach any sense of finality, as the story is still unfolding.
    Jon Burlingame, Variety, 18 Nov. 2022
  • One poor game, one blowout loss and some leap to a conclusion about the series finality.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 28 May 2017
  • Even with the finality of a guilty verdict, sincere apologies are hard to come by.
    Lisa Bonos, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Don’t be surprised if new doors open suddenly, or if old ones slam shut with finality.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Still, it’s been hard to ignore the daunting finality that has been creeping up on us for years.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2025
  • But the finality of his milestone chase, much like his success as a whole, is no longer a given.
    Sam Blum, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But there was a distinct finality to this moment.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2026
  • There’s a finality about a sunset that kinda stayed with me throughout the whole process.
    Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 8 Mar. 2022
  • There’s a finality about a sunset that kinda stayed with me throughout the whole process.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The fantasy decays as the finality of all this death sets in.
    Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2017

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