How to Use coda in a Sentence

coda

noun
Definition of codanext
Synonyms for codanext
  • The movie's coda shows the main character as an adult 25 years later.
  • The End of Me was published in 1968 and reads like a coda to the other two novels.
    — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • There is the reunion itself, and then the coda in which more is revealed.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
  • Nicholas Kristof touched on this a bit in a column that could be a coda for the tense weekend that just passed.
    — Andrew Cohen, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The coda to this story is that the De Niro interview did go out.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Elling paused, then picked up the chorus one more time, a wistful coda.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Starr had returned to the band and the clip was filmed with a live audience that came forward to join the group in singing its coda.
    — John Long, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2023
  • And the lyrics serve as an eerily prescient coda to Once & Always.
    — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • And then the comedown, or, in Neil Young’s coda to Jim Morrison, life after the gold rush.
    — James Reich, SPIN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • His book is a fitting coda to a career that screams to be a biopic (in fact, a script of Forte’s life is being shopped around).
    — Kevin Pang, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
  • The media will cover it; who knows, maybe Gibney will shoot a coda for his film.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The coda of the episode is informative, chilling, and brief.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
  • All that really did was the fact a taxing week would end with a coda of relief.
    — Ben Goessling, Star Tribune, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The series will close with a new coda written by King himself.
    — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Her stand against evil was one of faith, a fitting coda for this character.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2021
  • In a calamitous coda to the session, the house was subsequently destroyed in a fire.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • What's perhaps the most brutal coda to all of this is that Pence has remained largely loyal to Trump.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 12 Nov. 2021
  • That should be the Pogba the public should remember, not the disheartening coda of the last few years.
    — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • It was basically cut down to 11 and a half episodes, because that last one is slightly longer and has that coda.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
  • None of the previous 118 incarnations of The Game were followed with a coda like this.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Tambo & Bones, however, fades in its coda in a way these other two plays do not.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The coda reflects poorly on McCarthy’s core beliefs, or lack of them.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The request is a coda to oral arguments in the cases, which occurred last Wednesday.
    — cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
  • And when it was pointed out that the sentencing is coming up, and perhaps there could be a coda to the story, Seyfried sounded ready.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Sometimes, in these tales that wallow in despair, there is subplot or a coda to the destruction.
    — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
  • His coda: in 1995, locals saw Johnson dive off a bridge into Sag Harbor, and then backstroke out to sea.
    — Elizabeth Isadora Gold, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Matt Levine wrote a coda to his epic piece on crypto that spanned an entire issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • In fact, the last five summits have failed to produce a joint declaration, the usual crowning coda of such events.
    — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022
  • What a fitting coda on Beijing’s Olympics, unprecedented in so many ways, and at times, just very sad.
    — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2022
  • He's soon joined by Phoebe, and their off-key duet is a poignant, funny coda to one of Chandler's most mature and moving storylines.
    — EW.com, 29 Oct. 2023

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