Sentence examples for uttermost from inspiring English sources

The word "uttermost" is correct and usable in written English
It is an adjective which means to the greatest or highest degree, or the furthest or farthest point or extreme. For example, "He went to the uttermost ends of the earth in search of this rare artifact."

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If he sends a proxy in his place, it won't work.Any advice for the next president of Brazil President: Do politics from the heart, take care of the poorest, and practice democracy to its uttermost ends.Thank you very much, president, for your time.

Free-market economies help create a middle class that is less susceptible to state pressure and political patronage.Perhaps most important, democracy needs leaders with an inclination and ability to compromise: what Walter Bagehot, a 19th-century editor of The Economist, called a "disposition rather to give up something than to take the uttermost farthing".

This is the figure's utopian aspect: its uttermost unfolding, its extreme openness and unboundedness.

It was tested to the uttermost yesterday during an opening quarter in which England scarcely left their own half; Kelly Brazier was brought down metres short by Danielle Waterman; Brazier and Emma Jensen missed penalty attempts; and England emerged from the fire the stronger.

If George just about survives in national myth as a fat and randy hedonist, then the Indian exploits of the generals who stand guard with him have dropped into uttermost oblivion.

Sidney, following the lead of a 16th-century Italian Neoclassicist, Ludovico Castelvetro, added the unity of place: "The stage should always represent but one place, and the uttermost time presupposed in it should be, both by Aristotle's precept and common reason, but one day".

Every pastor, he said in one sermon, has a divine mandate to "capture our Jerusalem for Christ," then "capture our surrounding province, or state, our Judaea for Christ," then "capture the adjacent nations, our Samarias," and, finally, "touch the uttermost part of the earth and likewise capture it for Christ".

Scott's team had dreamed of the South Pole — "the uttermost end of the world," as Scott described it.

I think back to the words of the great British poet Sir Alfred Tennyson, which are engraved into a large, lonely wooden cross overlooking a path, in memory of explorers who sought the South Pole 100 years ago, which represented the uttermost end of the known world: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield".

All this showed the depleted yet still plucky Mets at what could be their uttermost.

One hundred years ago Scott traveled to the "uttermost end of the world" for the same reasons.

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