uppermost
IPA: ˈʌpɝmoʊst
adjective
- At or nearest the top of something.
- Highest in rank, importance, etc.
adverb
- In the highest position.
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Examples of "uppermost" in Sentences
- This is the uppermost peak of the mountain.
- The Gardens are the uppermost part of the House.
- The upper end of the uppermost section is closed.
- Flowers appear in the axils of the uppermost leaves.
- Bolna is situated in the uppermost part of the valley.
- A clock is centered in the uppermost band of the facade.
- The ground and honed bevel forming the edge is uppermost.
- The uppermost portion of the tank is thereby heated first.
- It is one of the uppermost substantial tributaries of the Volga.
- The article to be loaded is placed on the pedestal in the uppermost position.
- "Protection" seems to be a word uppermost in this anti-democrats mind at the moment:
- The conclusion that three dice were deliberately placed with six uppermost is then a personal, not a statistical conclusion.
- And so for the day, and without mention of the name uppermost in the thoughts of each, the two had parted -- for the first time as friends.
- Preconceived idea again uppermost, he took literally many of her sallies and allusions to her husband, which were purposely Brobdignagian in their dimensions.
- Two portable millstones are used for the purpose, of which the uppermost is turned by a small wooden handle, and during the operation the maid sits behind the mill.
- If by uppermost he meant right beside his constant scheming to restore his treacherous family to the wealth and power they had squandered in disloyalty, then I suppose he spoke truly enough.
- The necessity of replacing the monk by the schoolmaster was recognized, but not the necessity of replacing the nun by the schoolmistress; the purely physical and reproductive idea of woman being once again uppermost, the need for training her mind no longer existed.
- With regard to the construction of bones, the bones and joints of the fingers are simple, the bones of the hand and foot are numerous, and articulated in various ways; the uppermost are the largest; the heel consists of one bone which is seen to project outward, and the back tendons are attached to it.