Similar words: last ditch, last day, ditch, ditcher, ditchwater, A stitch in time saves nine, cast down, itch. Meaning: adj. of something done as a final recourse (especially to prevent a crisis or disaster).
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1. In a last-ditch attempt to save his party from electoral defeat, he resigned from the leadership.
2. They met in a last-ditch attempt to resolve their differences.
3. The fleeing troops rallied and prepared for a last-ditch fight.
4. The possibility of a last-ditch on the part of the enemy should not be lightly dismissed.
5. Only a last-ditch tackle by Song prevented Raul from scoring.
6. She underwent a heart transplant in a last-ditch attempt to save her.
7. The UN General Secretary flew in in a last-ditch effort to save the talks.
8. The negotiators made a last-ditch effort to reach an agreement.
9. Not as a second-rate effort or a last-ditch effort.
10. So finally, in a last-ditch attempt to salvage the exercise as a whole, the following workshop activity was developed.
11. Munich had inspired a last-ditch attempt to bring down Chamberlain and save the peace.
12. Tories fail to halt pedestrian plan A last-ditch attempt to delay the introduction of pedestrianisation in Darlington town centre was defeated.
13. The Republican victories came despite a last-ditch effort by the president to help Democratic candidates.
14. But they opted for a last-ditch marriage weekend that they say saved their relationship.
15. However, Khalid Boulahrouz made a last-ditch tackle to deal with the threat.
16. Researchers hope to make a last-ditch effort to stabilize the Yangtze ecosystem and prevent further extinctions.
17. Last night, Mr Jones said he was involved in a last-ditch effort to save the unit.
18. The whole operation sounds too neat to be true - but it seems to be working at least as well as other last-ditch cancer treatments.
19. Despite his bulk, he jumped several fences in a last-ditch attempt to escape.
20. The Bill looked like being reasonably successful despite a reported last-ditch effort by the Bill's Conservative opponents.
21. The next day, in a moment of grim rationality, I bought a double-barrel derringer as a secret, last-ditch weapon.
22. Horrified by his latest intentions, they were perhaps genuinely considering a last-ditch attempt to save him from himself.
23. A day before the event in Niagara Falls, Semaphore lost a last-ditch skirmish in court.
24. Proponents say geoengineering should at least be considered,[sentencedict.com] if only as a last-ditch tactic.
25. Their frantic recourse to the policy of strength is nothing but the deathbed frenzy of the weak and the last-ditch effort to prevent their ruling system from its collapse.
26. Hungary stunned the markets by raising rates 3pc to 11.5pc in a last-ditch attempt to defend the forint's currency peg in the ERM.
27. The decay heat must still be absorbed, however, and as a last-ditch effort the emergency core cooling system can be activated to flood the entire containment structure with water.
28. A controversial documentary about Japan's annual dolphin slaughter is due to be screened in Tokyo tomorrow, despite last-ditch attempts by hunters to have it banned.
29. The latest plan, devised in close consultation with the Obama administration's car-industry task force, is a last-ditch effort to get GM into competitive shape.
More similar words: last ditch, last day, ditch, ditcher, ditchwater, A stitch in time saves nine, cast down, itch, witch, hitch, itchy, bitch, pitch, fitch, cast doubt on, plaster cast, flitch, itch for, switch, litchi, pitcher, snitch, glitch, stitch, twitch, bitchy, last but not least, unhitch, twitchy, pitch in.