How to Use farewell in a Sentence

farewell

1 of 4 imperative verb
  • On our sailing, guests would say farewell or hop on for the first time at every port.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Buenos Aires, the city that embraced him in life, was now bidding him farewell in death.
    — Billboard Argentina, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But the memorial was also a homecoming and farewell from those who knew her best.
    — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Blinken will bid the pope farewell as the beginning of an uncertain new era beckons.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
  • So farewell then, Ayanna Pressley.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Bid those old, overused tank tops, T-shirts, and shorts farewell and create a new capsule wardrobe for this season.
    — Sarah Byron, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2023
  • So farewell to Clean Slate and farewell to the entire Freevee half-hour slate, now cleaned off the board.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • His last trip to the country was in May, a four-night stay and farewell to Las Vegas.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 10 July 2025
  • Here's how fans can say farewell with one last cruise-in tonight Learning to make cider helped this Arizona veteran heal.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 July 2020
  • To bid the royals farewell a few days later, the first lady slipped into a more casual version go-to black-and-white pantsuit.
    — Morgan Evans, USA Today, 9 June 2026
  • But how farewell their rebellion really go when academic conformity is the key to get into top-notch colleges?
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
  • With this devastating first section of its final chapter, Netflix’s crown jewel bids farewell to an icon, and retakes its throne.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • During the past few weeks, visitors like Josh and Shelley have come to the zoo to say farewell and recall the role the giant pandas played in their lives.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Bid breakouts, blemishes, and blackheads farewell with Sunday Riley's cult-classic elixir.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 12 Oct. 2022
  • With its gentle rhythm and soothing illustrations, the story creates a calming bedtime ritual as the bunny bids farewell to everything in his world one by one.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 26 June 2026
  • The Detroit News captured video at that practice of Bagley and Livers bidding teammates farewell after learning of the deal.
    — Tim Reynolds, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024
  • In preparation for the Alaskan wilderness, the Hoffmans and their crew shop for bear guns, bid their wives farewell, and are prayed over by a local pastor (who decides, at the last minute, to join them).
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • At the Jewish Museum talk this month, as security guards escorted one group of activists out, Cherkassky bade them farewell with an expletive.
    — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Before The Athletic bids farewell to someone once voted Leeds’ all-time best goalkeeper in a supporters’ poll, talk switches to the winter sport.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 29 July 2025
  • The series chronicles the journey from the fest’s origins as a Jane’s Addiction farewell tour to its becoming a cultural phenomenon.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Perhaps gourmands worried that in a year that had already seen such upheaval in the hospitality industry, Marylanders might say farewell to one of the state’s most exciting restaurants.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Yet, in the final minutes of the film, as Frodo bids farewell to his Hobbit comrades and departs Middle-earth, Ball was overcome by familiar emotions.
    — NBC News, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Mother Nature decided Ohio needed one for the road as the state bids farewell to 2024, unleashing one more tornado to make Ohio's record year for twisters even worse.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Tokyo — Japanese fans rushed to farewell the country’s last two pandas on Sunday ahead of their return to China, in a departure that highlights strained relations between the two countries.
    — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 25 Jan. 2026
  • As Billboard proudly celebrates these internal promotions, the company also bids farewell to longtime editor in chief Hannah Karp.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art bids farewell to its historic Overton Park home with a climactic exhibition that is both a celebration of the past and a bridge to the future.
    — John Beifuss, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The Landry family bid viewers farewell on Sunday night, with the season 4 finale of The Way Home serving as the definite conclusion to Hallmark's multigenerational, century spanning drama.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 22 June 2026
  • Son returned to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to bid the home fans farewell as Spurs beat Slavia Prague 3-0 in the Champions League on December 9, following his summer transfer to the United States.
    — Elias Burke, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2026

farewell

2 of 4 noun
  • They said their farewells and headed home.
  • Clips from this farewell tour would do, too.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
  • A lot of people call it a farewell.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Among these first meetings is a farewell.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • And at the end, the farewell, the return.
    — Dan Rys, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Here's who else is bidding farewell to the show.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Healy said this isn’t a farewell, just a new chapter.
    — Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Jon made a statement a while ago that this was his farewell.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The girls bid Santa farewell with hugs.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Then the final song had to work for Eleven’s farewell.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2026
  • From the Sports Desk A coach's farewell.
    — Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 7 Jan. 2026
  • And when the new year rises, the global farewell tour.
    — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2025
  • And when the new year rises, the global farewell tour.
    — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Things were about to get worse for a team that bid farewell to a season and an era.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Don’t be sad — this is not a farewell forever.
    — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 14 May 2026
  • The three Wave players will have an up-close view at two farewells.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The band famously launched its first farewell tour more than two decades ago.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • That would be a sharp and grand farewell for Yang, and well deserved.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Bob Iger is getting ready for his encore farewell.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Mary, Yvonne, what stood out to you most about Logan’s farewell?
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • All of them are now embarked on their respective farewell tours.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Night one of a farewell show from the iconic rockers had sadly come to a close.
    — John Lonsdale, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Now, it’s intended as an event, a farewell to the most beloved group of the rock ’n’ roll era.
    — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The streets were lined with thousands of fans, bidding the rocker farewell.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • So the station is having a festive farewell.
    — Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • On the title track, for instance, Wayuhi bids a catchy farewell to an ex-flame.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Also among the many people who had come to wish Ayala a fond farewell?
    — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
  • One industry trend Payne is eager to wave farewell to?
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe her book was a farewell to her ambitions for higher office.
    — Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Get ready to bid farewell to the haze and embrace a clearer path toward wellness!
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2023

farewell

3 of 4 verb
  • The retiring teacher was farewelled by the whole school at a special assembly.
  • On our sailing, guests would say farewell or hop on for the first time at every port.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Too many people are spending too much time with their fonder farewells at the drop-off sign.
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Buenos Aires, the city that embraced him in life, was now bidding him farewell in death.
    — Billboard Argentina, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Too many people are spending too much time with their fonder farewells in the drop-off zone and there’s no space for others.
    — Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
  • But the memorial was also a homecoming and farewell from those who knew her best.
    — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Blinken will bid the pope farewell as the beginning of an uncertain new era beckons.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
  • So farewell then, Ayanna Pressley.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Bid those old, overused tank tops, T-shirts, and shorts farewell and create a new capsule wardrobe for this season.
    — Sarah Byron, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2023
  • So farewell to Clean Slate and farewell to the entire Freevee half-hour slate, now cleaned off the board.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • His last trip to the country was in May, a four-night stay and farewell to Las Vegas.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 10 July 2025
  • Here's how fans can say farewell with one last cruise-in tonight Learning to make cider helped this Arizona veteran heal.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 July 2020
  • To bid the royals farewell a few days later, the first lady slipped into a more casual version go-to black-and-white pantsuit.
    — Morgan Evans, USA Today, 9 June 2026
  • The modern athlete bids farewell on social media, with a few kind thoughts on Twitter or Instagram.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2020
  • But how farewell their rebellion really go when academic conformity is the key to get into top-notch colleges?
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
  • With this devastating first section of its final chapter, Netflix’s crown jewel bids farewell to an icon, and retakes its throne.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • During the past few weeks, visitors like Josh and Shelley have come to the zoo to say farewell and recall the role the giant pandas played in their lives.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Bid breakouts, blemishes, and blackheads farewell with Sunday Riley's cult-classic elixir.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Barry Manilow is rescheduling several tour dates on his upcoming Last Concerts farewell tour.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Feb. 2026
  • With its gentle rhythm and soothing illustrations, the story creates a calming bedtime ritual as the bunny bids farewell to everything in his world one by one.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 26 June 2026
  • The Detroit News captured video at that practice of Bagley and Livers bidding teammates farewell after learning of the deal.
    — Tim Reynolds, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024
  • In preparation for the Alaskan wilderness, the Hoffmans and their crew shop for bear guns, bid their wives farewell, and are prayed over by a local pastor (who decides, at the last minute, to join them).
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • At the Jewish Museum talk this month, as security guards escorted one group of activists out, Cherkassky bade them farewell with an expletive.
    — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Before The Athletic bids farewell to someone once voted Leeds’ all-time best goalkeeper in a supporters’ poll, talk switches to the winter sport.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 29 July 2025
  • The series chronicles the journey from the fest’s origins as a Jane’s Addiction farewell tour to its becoming a cultural phenomenon.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Perhaps gourmands worried that in a year that had already seen such upheaval in the hospitality industry, Marylanders might say farewell to one of the state’s most exciting restaurants.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Yet, in the final minutes of the film, as Frodo bids farewell to his Hobbit comrades and departs Middle-earth, Ball was overcome by familiar emotions.
    — NBC News, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Mother Nature decided Ohio needed one for the road as the state bids farewell to 2024, unleashing one more tornado to make Ohio's record year for twisters even worse.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Tokyo — Japanese fans rushed to farewell the country’s last two pandas on Sunday ahead of their return to China, in a departure that highlights strained relations between the two countries.
    — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 25 Jan. 2026
  • As Billboard proudly celebrates these internal promotions, the company also bids farewell to longtime editor in chief Hannah Karp.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 20 Jan. 2026

farewell

4 of 4 adjective
  • The band gave a farewell concert.
  • Watch Yang's farewell sketch above.
    — Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Dec. 2025
  • How did the idea of a farewell tour come about?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
  • There’s no time to waste on a farewell tour for aged players.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2022
  • What songs does The Who play on its farewell tour?
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The tone is like a farewell email from an employee leaving a job.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Though last year was also thought to be Rodgers’ farewell season.
    — Mike Defabo, New York Times, 16 May 2026
  • His mother put her hand over her chest in a farewell gesture, while his father put his arm around her.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • John's farewell show has since been delayed three times, pushing it back more than 29 months.
    — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2022
  • That caused Sampson to push Mills back, followed by a farewell head-butt.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Roth’s goal was to make this farewell season about the games, and there is no bigger one than Monday‘s.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • His farewell performance Sunday was a good one.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Two young children were seen kneeling at the body of their father as a woman told them to bid him farewell.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Once, during a farewell party for a beloved employee, guests watched a tiramisu flip over all on its own.
    — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • And so farewell, disgraced ex-State Police Sgt.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Despite the late evening before, everyone managed to wake up in time for a farewell brunch.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Raver has also directed three episodes and thanked a mentor in her farewell statement.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Mondale wrote a farewell letter sent to his staff over the years upon his death on Monday.
    — Daniel Chaitin, Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The Clippers’ decision to send him home surely shakes up his farewell tour.
    — Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Halfway into a farewell bottle of wine, Tim grabbed a marker and signed his name on the wall.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Nov. 2021
  • They were supposed to meet up in a few days for what Goodall, who was ninety-one, was calling farewell drinks.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • So much of this season has felt like a farewell tour for Crosby, Malkin and Letang.
    — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Reynolds wasn’t the only celebrity to make a cameo during Colbert’s farewell episode.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 26 May 2026
  • Adams had been at OTA and minicamp practices with the team in a farewell tour of sorts.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2021
  • The only other move in the veteran-band playbook after that was a farewell tour.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The 2026 Games will be a farewell tour for Jessie Diggins.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • This is perfect farewell gift for someone who is going off to college, who could use a bloom kit to keep them focused in school.
    — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 5 Aug. 2022
  • George Washington expressed this view in his farewell address.
    — Christopher Schelin, The Conversation, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Major-league baseball careers rarely end with a farewell tour or a single defining moment.
    — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Barry Manilow is pausing his farewell tour to deal with a serious health issue.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Dec. 2025

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