Sentence examples for read at best from inspiring English sources

The former, academics, published their work in scholarly journals read (at best) by about 23 people.

I've got 2,000 books left to read, at best, and I intend to be ruthless in choosing them.

However, these scores were so divergent from where I believed they should be that I have to believe that the portfolio was given only a cursory read at best.

HONG KONG — The sprawling Chinese economy is hard to read at the best of times.

A government that rules by signal is difficult to read at the best of times.

"If, to keep in touch, you require yourself to read at least one best-selling novel a year," wrote John Leonard, the ambivalent reviewer for The Times, " 'The Vicar of Christ' is the one.

This is exactly why reading, at its best, is good for you: there's almost never an immediate, practical reason to do it.

Intricately told – with painstakingly detailed, radiant illustrations – this little treasure of a book is, naturally, best read at teatime.

It is a breathless, quotation-packed work, light years from anything to do with orthodox politics, which suggests someone unpacking the entire contents of their head: it's probably about 100 pages too long, and best read at the rate of a chapter every few days.

Some books are best read at a certain age.

What's the best piece you read at the weekend?