(1) As they crowded around my camera they shouted out their professions as a kind of valediction: "I'm an interior designer … sales rep … bank clerk … I'm a classical pianist and I studied at the fucking Royal Academy!"
(2) Georgia Gould does not quote from her father's letter to her, though she says she reads it all the time, but her valediction is no less moving, detailing the closeness and moments of comedy of the final days, with a kind of euphoria.
(3) Roth has lived a life so dedicated to his work – long, isolated days wrestling with tricky, often painful material – that it's hard not to take his valediction at face value; despite the mixed reception received by some of his later novels , his withdrawal is unlikely to have been caused by a fit of pique.
(4) Forthrightness is a permissible perk of valediction and Sir Michael is as well qualified as anyone to opine on educational inequality.
(5) After the predictable and fun reunion of former cast members , after a long on-screen tribute to all the behind-the-scenes workers, he left a kind of valediction on the show’s purpose, and its target: “institutional bullshit designed to obscure and distract”.
Valedictorian
Definition:
(n.) One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sort of person she seems to represent – the class valedictorian, the head cheerleader – doesn’t translate culturally particularly well.
(2) Among the volley of replies were racist cartoons and accusations she had taken “a short cut” to success and enjoyed privileges unavailable to “a white male” in Texas, where local high school valedictorians such as Lara are granted two-semesters’ free tuition to the University of Texas regardless of their immigration status.
(3) A valedictorian is usually the highest-performing student in a class who gives a farewell address at graduation.
(4) Another Texas valedictorian received a standing ovation from her classmates last week after revealing she too was undocumented during a graduation speech at Boyd High School in McKinney, in the state’s north.
(5) We had a young lady that was homeless and was the valedictorian with a 4.0 [GPA].
(6) A Texas high-school valedictorian has been thrust into the tense US immigration debate after declaring on social media she is an undocumented migrant.
(7) She was at the top of her graduating high school class, but because of her race, she was not allowed recognition as the sole valedictorian.
(8) I cannot, or will not, take the freedoms this country offers for granted.” So here I was, sitting in my living room, asking my family a question: what if this speech, this declaration of loyalty to America, was given by an undocumented Mexican American valedictorian , a construction worker or a 22-year-old US-Dominican security guard who works at a Trump golf course ?