(interj. & adv.) Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.
(n.) A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8.25am BST As the day draws to a close it is time to bid the readers adieu and wrap up the live-blog for the day.
(2) 1.35am GMT Email Resins Man bids us adieu: Well I was two innings too early.
(3) The Liverpool team coach snaked out of Goodison Road with police vans for an escort and irate Evertonians lining the route to bid it adieu.
(4) However, I have chosen today to bid adieu to this profession that I have loved so much.
(5) Vidic and Giggs were on the bench, alongside the 21-year-old defender, Michael Keane, while Rio Ferdinand and Patrice Evra were not in the 18, and so were maybe denied a last home adieu as each may depart this summer.
(6) His task was to get himself out of a hole of his own making on Britain’s potential exit from the European Union, woo back Tory voters attracted by Ukip and manage those of his increasingly militant backbenchers whose goal is to say adieu to EU membership.
(7) Cannes contenders Grace of Monaco (director Olivier Dahan, the opening night film); Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas); Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello); Kis Uykusu (Nuri Bilge Ceylan); Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne); Mommy (Xavier Dolan); Captives (Atom Egoyan); Adieu au Langage (Jean-Luc Godard); The Search (Michel Hazanavicius); The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones); Futatsume No Mado (Naomi Kawase); Mr Turner (Mike Leigh); Jimmy's Hall (Ken Loach); Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller); Le Meraviglie (Alice Rohrwacher); Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako); Relatos Salvajes (Damian Szifron); Leviafan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
(8) The cover of Monday's influential news weekly Der Spiegel declares "Adieu Greece", arguing that it is time to kick the country out of the euro.
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Example Sentences:
(1) A bout a year ago, a few months before she left sixth-form college, my youngest daughter asked cheerily: "What will you feel when you have no one left to wave goodbye to in the morning?"
(2) After Manchester United came the long goodbye to Stamford Bridge, a home game against Leeds on 15 May 2004, Abramovich's dismissal notice in Ranieri's pocket, but a lap and guard of honour with the players.
(3) That certainly was the feeling as Gerrard said goodbye on Saturday evening to the stadium that has been his professional home for the past 17 years.
(4) While building a structure that would enable us to realise our strategic vision was crucial, saying goodbye to close colleagues – some of whom had been with our legacy organisations for over a decade – was really hard.
(5) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
(6) After he read the telegram, Hunt turned to his signals officer and said: "They might have added goodbye and the best of British!"
(7) When we say goodbye, Max turns in the passenger seat, and says, simply: 'Be gentle with her.'
(8) The gaffer’s not actually spoken to me and I’ll go in and say goodbye but I think it will be fine.
(9) This wasn’t about him; this first part of the event, before he headed out to the pitch where the trophies and the fans awaited him, was not much of a goodbye.
(10) Goodbye to the States, to the Caribbean, to Indonesia, possibly to India.
(11) Goodbye Cherry Street Bed and Breakfast, Punxsutawney .
(12) The two women who remain in jail, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, smiled through light tears after hugging Samutsevich goodbye.
(13) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
(14) He's a really powerful character and supporters were hoping he would say goodbye.
(15) When I say goodbye to him every day,” she told a court recently, “I sit hoping he comes home from school.
(16) In a rare move, Cannes judges decided to split the jury prize between Mommy , a boisterous Oedipal comedy from Canada's 25-year-old Xavier Dolan, and the abstract, oblique Goodbye to Language from the 83-year-old provocateur Jean-Luc Godard.
(17) It was a heartfelt goodbye from the king of British pop to the king of British shopping, one scouser to another.
(18) She was born on the estate, and is also saying goodbye to neighbours and friends she has spent a lifetime with.
(19) 4.14pm GMT Goodbye from Glenn Greenwald Just to take a break from the debate for a second: Glenn Greenwald is leaving the Guardian today, and has written a final column looking back at his time with the paper and attacking a climate of hostility towards press freedom in the US and UK.
(20) She won’t be there to say goodbye.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev (right) with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin this month.