uppermost

IPA: ˈʌpɝmoʊst

Examples of "uppermost" in Sentences

"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.