Examples of coda in a Sentence
Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Three Doors Down on the turntable chanting their 2000 hit would furnish a fitting coda as the bash winds down.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
Many sperm whale dialects appear to contain a social-marker coda.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2024
Could there be a more amusing coda to the Barbie phenomenon than the Ken doll, played by Ryan Gosling, getting a Best Supporting Actor nomination, while Barbie herself, played by Margot Robbie, got snubbed?
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
As the slightly too-tidy coda hammers home, such perseverance is all about rising up, putting one foot in front of the other and cherishing what remains.
—Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
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
That should be the Pogba the public should remember, not the disheartening coda of the last few years.
—Emmet Gates, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
An extended instrumental coda appears after a passage of silence, and suddenly the pedal steel and soft percussion provide transcendent levels of yacht-rock breeziness.
—Joshua Minsoo Kim, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2024
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Word History
Italian, literally, tail, from Latin cauda
1740, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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“Coda.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coda. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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