utmost extent

Example Sentences

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But with a 16-year playoff drought that has become an oversized albatross that haunts every fan, it’s a goal well worth pursuing to the utmost extent.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2018

"This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations, other than are prescribed in the Constitution."

From Time • Feb. 2, 2011

In the boiler I am about to describe, I apprehend that the improvement is carried to the utmost extent of which the principle is capable.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.

Then all rose, and launched forth in one of those ancient pieces of church harmony, "Coronation;" every voice and instrument letting itself go to its utmost extent.

From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by Riley, H. H.

Let it be magnified to the utmost extent, it is still only magnified, not metamorphosed.

From The Essential Faith of the Universal Church Deduced from the Sacred Records by Martineau, Harriet