Last-straw Sentence Examples

These articles, harmless as they may seem to us, were the last straw that Scottish loyalty could bear.

My bruised knee is the last straw and it's got to go.

I went to the doctors after I collapsed at college, but it was the proverbial last straw.

The man's question was the last straw - and the rest, as they say, is music history.

When his Uncle Vernon's sister comes to visit the Dursley home, Harry is delivered the last straw when she begins insulting his parents.

The decision also turns out to be the last straw for his wife, Dualla, who decides to leave him.

The last straw that determined action was the discovery of a paper docketed " Not to be opened till after my death," which was nothing but a railing accusation against herself.

When in February the army ordnance office reported the previous month's production figures, Hitler found this the last straw.

Beauty may be only skin deep, but to someone undergoing cancer treatment, losing their hair may be the last straw.

The picture was the last straw.

It was the last straw.

I think the last straw was a sunglass site that we've been working on for some time now.