How to use "final" in a sentence

I know this could be a final goodbye to my parents and sister, Sonja.

And suddenly I was in the final, playing with a Russian, Honest Ivan, the best player in the world

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course - both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.

In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

The police believed there was one final murder by the Ripper in July 1889

Early the following morning, he paid the concierge his final rent and went to live with his friend, Enjolras

Nothing had changed, and he decided that he had one last duty to perform: he must send Cosette a final message and tell her of his death

In reality, however, all he does is press 'play' on the recording device and write down a few notes about when the judge enters, when the prosecution or defence speaks, or what the final verdict is

But he entered my competition, and he used his tricks and his fast fingers, and he won every game until it came to the final."

The only reason you got to the final table, to my table, Jimmy is because I let you."

Then, after her final spoonful, Sala reached for her bag.

Sala watched as everyone gathered around Cham for their final goodbyes

Sala waited in the pod as they made the final checks, bright lights blinding her from above.

She thought of Gran's final advice

They began as lovers, sharing every detail of their daily lives - triumphs and failures, joys and frustrations - but by the time the divorce was final, they were strangers

Then at one o'clock, the entire cast and the crew would assemble for the final dress rehearsal.

She almost would have preferred to discover someone lurking in the kitchen or crouching in a closet rather than be forced to look, at last, in that final space where sadness seemed to dwell like a tenant

Somehow, the act of giving away his clothes would be even sadder and more final than watching his casket being lowered into the ground.

Tuesday afternoon Tina watched the final dress rehearsal of Magyck! From a seat in the middle of the Golden Pyramid showroom.

In the health-obsessed final decade of the century, eating fatty foods was widely regarded as a far more delicious - and more damning - sin than envy, sloth, thievery, and adultery.

The final curtain came down at eight minutes till ten o'clock, and the ovation continued until after Tina's wristwatch had marked the hour

As Tina pored over a final bill for carpentry work on some of the Magyck! Sets, Angela, her secretary, stepped in from the outer office

Windshield wipers beating away the snow, chain-wrapped tires clanking on the heated roadbed, the Explorer crested a final hill

The second was my script of another book which, in a fit of frustration at this entire process, I wrote in three days after the assigned writer's final - and umpteenth - draft was deemed inadequate

A final difference seems very unimportant

Great piles of earth had formed around a pit at the top of the hill - the final and largest one the Martians had made - and from behind these piles thin smoke rose against the sky

Jesus! She doesn't wish herself dead or anything as stupidly final as that