chiefest
Example Sentences
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Fire recovery is the first and chiefest task here, and its logistics overwhelm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
Reading great prose is one of my chiefest joys.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
Three words pretty much sum up the chiefest reasons for chief executives’ pilgrimages here: gold, glory and golf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
The chiefest among them is still Shakespeare, who has, I think, no equal for variety and richness of character.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2012
Thy leaves, Physician blest, medicines contain E'en for our medicines poor, our chiefest bane.193 This is to escape death well—in death to lie; And this is to live long—quickly to die.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
