If you say that something has happened at last or at long last you mean it has happened after you have been hoping for it for a long time.
I'm so glad that we've found you at last!
Here, at long last, was the moment he had waited for.
At last the train arrived in the station.
'All right', he said at last. 'You may go.'
Synonyms: finally, eventually, in the end, ultimately More Synonyms of at last
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at last in British English
in the end; finally
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Examples of 'at last' in a sentence
at last
At last it was time to eat.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
Ham and egg time at last.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A true ambition gets its chance at last.
The Sun (2017)
It seems we are moving in the right direction at last.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Can the story ending change at last?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The narrative suggests that they may at last marry.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Perhaps the cafeteria approach to benefits is an idea whose time has at last come.
Torrington, Derek Personnel Management: A New Approach (1991)
We are at last seeing a recovery in housebuilding.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It may be time at last to be long of cash.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
We have at last got some things right.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
She felt sure he was going to propose at last.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
At last my weekend will feel like a proper weekend again.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
But he is at last on the right track.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
And so the long season comes to an end at last.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
That issue may at last be tackled this week.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It is time at last to let this ship sink.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
At last you see where you took a wrong turn and are ready to go back.
The Sun (2012)
Hearts and minds want the same things at last and there could be real love magic.
The Sun (2011)
Here at last was a chance for him to join forces with the right against a common enemy.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They kept it quiet for ages but are at last coming to terms with being a couple in public.
The Sun (2013)
At last the moment has come.
The Sun (2006)
At last a favourable moment arrived.
Patrick Bishop FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940 (2003)
I think we both realized at last that before long the lights of our accustomed world would have faded behind us.
Edward Beauclerk Maurice THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic (2004)
We look at last night 's performance to establish whether the Italian is one or the other.
The Sun (2010)
At last night 's closing price the company was valued at about 279 million.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The overwhelming support which the document received at the annual conference of 1947 signified that the party had at last come to terms with the Keynesian age.
Eccleshall, Robert English Conservatism since the Restoration: An introduction and anthology (1990)