How to Use bitter end in a Sentence

bitter end

noun
  • And a soccer match can be scoreless right up to the bitter end.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But the group and LaPierre seem destined to see things through to the bitter end.
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Nixon had his defenders in Congress, some of whom stayed with him to the bitter end.
    — Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 15 June 2022
  • That was enough to stick around for until the increasingly bitter end.
    — Michael Rand, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • When a ship rides out a gale, the cable is let out tojust the place that this column has reached — the bitter end.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • So kids are asleep on shoulders with earplugs in, and the parents are standing there until the bitter end.
    — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The game itself was basketball as theater, same as ever, all the way to the bitter end.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Don’t get your board of advisors involved at the bitter end of bad decisions.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • And how two adoptive parents fought for their foster daughter until the bitter end.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
  • Dolly Parton is staying booked and busy until the bitter end.
    — Vulture, 16 July 2023
  • Take Abbes, whose life the novelist chronicles to the bitter end.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Theo smoked the cigarette to the bitter end, flipped the butt into the grass, and brushed the ashes off the front of her nightshirt.
    — Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The governor also invoked the words of his high school football coach, who told players to play the game to the bitter end.
    — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2022
  • In the end, the entire show comes full circle as each character meets a bitter end as a result of their greed and thirst for revenge.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Monique was among the dwindling group of people who hadn’t found somewhere else to go by the bitter end, June 30.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
  • The Dodgers’ fragile state these days has required complete focus until the bitter end.
    — Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Red Wings fans, the relative few who stayed in their seats until the bitter end, let their voices be heard with a chorus of boos.
    — CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Despite the bitter end of Tina, Haynes is trying to focus on the positive.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2022
  • So the government, some of these Amish will not, right to the bitter end, accept any government money.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 6 June 2026
  • As the year approaches its bitter end, for many Iranians their desperate pleas linger on.
    — Nima Elbagir, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • My advice to anyone who wants to hunt to the bitter end of any hunting season is to invest in high-quality wool base layers.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The decision by Kiffin has created a bitter end to a program that has been built up well the last six seasons.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • So much more than your average ghost story, Oculus is filled with mind games and jump scares that keep you on the edge of your seat until the bitter end.
    — Leigh Hewett, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • But somebody that plays the games to the bitter end, tries to have it both ways, dances on the head of the pin, in my opinion, has forfeited their right to lead this country.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 May 2023
  • At the bitter end of a brutal January, Kennedy Smith put her head down, determined to will her way to the hoop.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Tessa is more resentful, blaming Nathan’s leadership to the bitter end.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Most of those who applauded the series, rightfully, during its first two seasons will likely be inclined to stick around until the bitter end.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 27 Apr. 2021
  • But a handful survived to the bitter end, maintaining their seats at the corporate table through a wily deployment of guts, guile and willpower.
    — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Detroit woke up in time to advance to the bitter end of the ALDS before the Mariners prevailed.
    — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Their postseason has seen a continuation of that hand-grenade-and-horseshoe acumen, though the Kings have held out hope until the bitter end.
    — Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026

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