How to Use last straw in a Sentence

last straw

noun
  • These days, that kind of thing would be the last straw for me.
    — Valentina Valentini, Longreads, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Most likely, of course, the last straw was all of them and none of them.
    — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • But the thoughtless killing of one of their own seems to have been the last straw.
    — Suhasini Raj and Kai Schultz, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2017
  • His best friend being killed in a bombing was the last straw.
    — NBC News, 27 May 2018
  • But the last straw for her didn't even involve the village board.
    — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2018
  • But the Taliban takeover last month seems to have been the last straw.
    — Muhammad Farooq and Joseph Krauss, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The video wasn’t the reason for his exit, but was the last straw.
    — cleveland, 9 Nov. 2021
  • At least one restaurant closed for good (the outbreak was the last straw).
    — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Trump doesn’t need my money, but that transcript was the last straw for me.
    — Elena Durnbaugh, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Is Shane the last straw, or has the ketamine addled his brain?
    — Lisa Liebman, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The newest suspension might have been the last straw for the bar.
    — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2020
  • The last straw for Charlie was after a job he was paid in mink skin.
    — Southern Living, 21 July 2017
  • After years of mounting complaints, the death of a young girl was the last straw.
    — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Black fired a popular top cop last week, and that was the last straw for the mayor.
    — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • When boundaries fail time and again, cutting ties might be the last straw, Rice says.
    — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 20 Oct. 2022
  • That was the last straw for the group, Allen said, prompting them to compose the ad.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2021
  • But the Taliban takeover in August seems to have been the last straw.
    — Josef Federman, ajc, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The last straw may have come when the group sued to desegregate two school districts.
    — Jeff Amy, The Seattle Times, 30 Oct. 2018
  • That was the last straw for many women who liked Ivanka, but not her father.
    — Megan Friedman, Cosmopolitan, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The last straw was the dismal fourth quarter earnings and investor call.
    — Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The damage may simply have been the last straw after 84 years of wear and tear.
    — Katy Read, Star Tribune, 8 May 2021
  • But when Che offered his last cookie to Rocco, that was the last straw.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2022
  • And the last straw here is this allegation that came about last Thursday, and again.
    — Fox News, 17 Sep. 2018
  • The 3-0 humbling at the hands of PSG may have been the last straw.
    — SI.com, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The couple said the incident was the last straw for them in Greater Cincinnati.
    — James Pilcher, Cincinnati.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • To a nation which had lost 105 lives to gun massacres in the preceding decade, this was the last straw.
    — Philip Alpers, CNN, 1 June 2022
  • Here, a single photon acts as that last straw, switching the device from one stable state to another.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Beulah ordered her beloved Rob-Will to rehab (for the third time) and out of the family business line of succession after this alleged last straw killing.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 19 June 2026

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