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How to use upmost in a sentence

From the tier of the upmost holes came at length the terrific burst of the heavy mines.

If he is not forestalled, his boat will be bottom upmost, or crushed like glass within the hour.

In less than half-an-hour the ruined amphitheatre was a moving mass of heads from the ground to its upmost storey.

Hence, in the present English, the different parts of the syllable most (in words like upmost) come from different quarters.

There were three enclosures; but the upmost one, though carefully folded, was unsealed, and engaged his attention first.

There he is belly upmost, his breast seamed by four thrusts.

If left lying, this confined air changes its locality—leaves the ends for the upmost side of the shell.

The object was described as resembling a vessel with her keel turned upmost in the sea, or a small ridge of rock or island.

The man steadied himself instantly, but the single instant cost the balance of the upmost figure.

I am a most ardent admirer of yours; and the upmost extent of my ambition is to become an accepted one.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985