Definition
After a long time; eventually.
In the end; finally; ultimately.
In Context
- "Now that the dog has stopped barking, perhaps we can at last get some rest."
- "After three hundred years had passed, at last the vampire's soul was free."
- "After all their troubles, at last they lived happily ever after."
- "After exhausting all possibilities, Holmes was at last satisfied the problem was unsolvable."
- "Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go along with it."
- "No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness."
- "She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man."
- "The offending train ahead proved to be the 9.30 a.m. from Waterloo, which after Southampton checked us again and again until at last we passed it, headed by 4-6-0 No. 30850, Lord Nelson, standing shamefacedly in the loop at Pokesdown."
Also Said As
- in due course