chiefest

Example Sentences

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It’s ridiculous that our chiefest, most visible civic icon and landmark shouldn’t serve the city’s interest better.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2023

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

It is, was, will be good enough for “mother, my mother, my ole mother, father, brother, sister,” and all the list of biblical names, chiefest among whom are Paul and Silas, Peter and John.

From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Odum, Howard W.