Synonyms for last resort

Grammar : Noun

Définition of last resort

noun desperate remedy

Example sentences :

Yet as a last resort to maintain the right, war is justifiable.
Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump

Then, as a last resort, the hole was papered over like the wall-paper of the room.
Extract from : « Concerning Cats » by Helen M. Winslow

As a last resort this seaweed is edible, at any rate certain species of it.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling

And now Captain Zelotes was asking him to give up this last resort.
Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Only in the last resort had he determined to fling off the mask.
Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman

Every other means has failed, and this is their last resort.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 » by Various

Long since, perhaps, at some court of last resort, the Paliser Case had been decided.
Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus

In the last resort a savage can only assert his rights by brute force.
Extract from : « The Task of Social Hygiene » by Havelock Ellis

In the last resort the right to control is with the consumers.
Extract from : « The Ghost in the White House » by Gerald Stanley Lee

In last resort the characters of the book have all something of the humanly-inhuman about them.
Extract from : « Maxim Gorki » by Hans Ostwald

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