How to use "penultimate" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "penultimate" in popular movie and book plots

  • In the penultimate vignette, Nobuyuki is shown at school.  - Ju-On: The Curse 2
  • In the penultimate sequence in the film, Sasha Vinni and Nikie st Gilles appear as mermaids outfitted with tail fins.  - Zazel
  • In the penultimate scene, workers at Borough National stand idle while listening to a report of the growing economic crisis.  - Rollover (film)
  • In the game's penultimate level, the player pursues Kilbaba and Ortega to their respective hideouts before capturing them.  - Jungle Strike
  • Kyo shows up at the end of the penultimate chapter being called upon by his sword tenro.  - Samurai Deeper Kyo
  • Their penultimate mission pits them against the "Handsome Men", a group of sentai rangers who assassinate a US politician.  - Killer7
  • He appeared at the end of the penultimate episode of season 6, when Carol leaves Cook County to reunite with Ross in Seattle.  - Doug Ross
  • In the penultimate episode, Ann decides to take a job in London, leaving her daughters in Indianapolis to raise families of their own.  - One Day at a Time
  • In the penultimate shot, she is seen dressed in red, riding an elevator that is heading down.  - The Grifters (film)
  • In the penultimate chapter, Orme wavers on his conversion and submission to this Martian Jesus.  - Jesus on Mars
  • The penultimate scene is Alice as she stands on a stage and tells her sobriety story; the toll it took on her, her children and her marriage.  - When a Man Loves a Woman (film)
  • In the penultimate chapter, the tone becomes didactic: 'We are all responsible for it', declares Čapek's mouthpiece, mr Povondra's adult son.  - War with the Newts
  • On the penultimate night of his stay, Bob sleeps with the hotel bar's female jazz singer.  - Lost in Translation (film)
  • As the creation of an old Inventor, Edward was a human-like boy who was in the penultimate stage of work.  - Edward Scissorhands
  • The penultimate chapter (chapter twelve) is the last one set in Anarres, and ends at a point before the first chapter begins.  - The Dispossessed
  • The penultimate title rhetorically asks: "Dare we dream of a golden day when the bestial War shall rule no more.  - The Birth of a Nation

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