uttermost
Example Sentences
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The headstone placed at Shackleton’s grave site bears a quotation it attributes to Robert Browning: “I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life’s set prize.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
‘I will,’ he said, ‘that we now try to the uttermost this combat.’
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
“The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
Show some admiration by making it clear that you are very sensitive to food-safety issues, implying that you are aware that uttermost exactitude is called for to accomplish this venerable task.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2018
I sink down again, huddled, strained to the uttermost.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
