uttermost

Example Sentences

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The headstone placed at Shackleton’s grave site bears a quotation it attributes to Robert Browning: “I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life’s set prize.”

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2022

‘I will,’ he said, ‘that we now try to the uttermost this combat.’

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

“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 • Oct. 15, 2018

Show some admiration by making it clear that you are very sensitive to food-safety issues, implying that you are aware that uttermost exactitude is called for to accomplish this venerable task.

From Slate • Sep. 6, 2018

I sink down again, huddled, strained to the uttermost.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque