last out
(intr) to be sufficient for one's needs: how long will our supplies last out?
(tr) to endure or survive: some old people don't last out the winter
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How to use last out in a sentence
Then, in 2012, he said he thought special operations forces and intelligence would be last out, as they had been first in.
Special Ops Commander Swears: I Won't Be Hillary's VP | Kimberly Dozier | August 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut he would not, with his build and constitutional habit, last out here for one fortnight.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonWe've grub enough hardly to last out the voyage back if we started now.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | VariousAnd Jass, to-day they 're going to have their last out-of-doors tea for this year, you know, as it's getting cold.
Robin Redbreast | Mary Louisa MolesworthBut if the reader fancies the Lawsuit was at last out in this way, he will be a simple reader!
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) | Thomas Carlyle
I had the most dreadful spasms, and it was supposed that I could not last out till noon the next day.
Wanderings in South America | Charles Waterton
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