uttermost

Example Sentences

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In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus declares of judgment as prison, “Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In Shackleton’s time, the hardiest adventurers — those strivers to the uttermost — made journeys to the poles.

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

“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