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

He traveled to the uttermost parts of the Earth, seeking wisdom from indigenous cultures about what it means to be fully human.

From National Geographic

I sink down again, huddled, strained to the uttermost.

From Literature

“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

For them it was paneremos, the ‘uttermost desert’, while French travellers in the Sahara in the eighteenth century knew it as le désert absolu.

From The Guardian