onliest
Example Sentences
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Now the “onliest boxer in history that people asked questions like a senator” developed coherent answers.
From New York Times
Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian Frank Keating, onliest sage of these pages, has passed away, prompting, as he would say, much vomiting parrot-wise round this way.
From The Guardian
The onliest way I could do it," I says, "would be fur you to tell me jest whut you wanted done an' 'en you'd have to mek all hands stand back an' keep quiet whilst I wuz tryin' to do it.
From Project Gutenberg
This is the onliest place I knows of," I says, "whar a shined-up counterfeit passes muster jest ez well ez the pyure gold, ef not better, 'specially ef the gold happens to be sort of dulled-down an' tarnished-lookin'.
From Project Gutenberg
Jimmy told the English newsboy that “America was de onliest place fit to live in on earth,” and naturally 81 the English boy resented it, so it was a free fight to settle the matter.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
