Use best in a sentence
Sentences starting with best
- Best leave him where he is. [11]
- Best men, best pickings. [11]
- Best brands Georgian, none in market; second quality, 1851, L180. [5]
- Best of all, Honora, by her unselfishness, endeared herself to her hostess. [9]
- Best give him another for luck. [9]
Sentences ending with best
- Now you work your mind, and study out a plan to steal Jim, and I will study out one, too; and we'll take the one we like the best. [5]
- Which style do you like best? [6]
- I do hope you are worse scared than hurt, though you ought to know best. [7]
- He could do with her exactly as he pleased, run her when and whither he chose, and tie her up to the bank whenever his judgment said that that course was best. [5]
- Come and kiss whom you love best! [11]
- He does right who does his best. [14]
- The question arises, whether do the London critics, or the old Northern squires, understand the matter best? [14]
- Yes, sir, it's when I like to think of him best. [9]
- But it shows what a shaky thing the human mind is at its best. [8]
- The Indians never went that way, only when the seasons were the best. [11]
Short sentences using best
- It's the best way out. [9]
- It was best to yield. [4]
- My best regards to Edith. [4]
- We did best to abide. [5]
- It's the best thing. [5]
- Still, he hoped the best. [11]
- Hires her best room. [6]
- The best brand, Roederer. [5]
- We send best regards. [5]
- Hadn't we best make sure? [11]
Sentences containing best two or more times
- During the later years of his life he ranked not only as America's chief man of letters, but likewise as her best known and best loved citizen. [5]
- For many a year, you know as well as I do, ships have been coming from France to Ireland with the very best wines and liquors, and taking back the very best wool- -smuggled, of course. [11]
- Experiments are made with different soils, to see what things thrive best in them and what climates are best for them. [5]
- Powhatan served the whites with the best he had, and best of all with a friendly welcome and with interesting discourse of the country. [4]
- Pride, the best weapon of a woman, the best tonic, came to her resource. [11]
- My father, who was my instructor, my companion, my dearest and best friend through all my later youth and my earlier manhood, died three years ago and left me my own master, with the means of living as might best please my fancy. [6]
- This is Emerson's view of them as they then were:-- "Of the two great parties, which, at this hour, almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men. [6]
- He was, in truth, the best rider in the country, and, so far, was the owner also of the best three-year-old that the West had produced. [11]
- When it comes to that, the best man, not exactly in the moral sense, but rather in the material, and more especially the muscular point of view, is very apt to have the best of it, irrespectively of the merits of the case. [6]
- Thackeray never pretended to make ideals, and if the best novel is an idealization of human nature, then he was not the best novelist. [4]
More example sentences with the word best in them
- It's the best you've done since you've come. [11]
- The one where your place is is the best for you. [6]
- Carnac, you have your own career to make, so make it as it best suits yourself. [11]
- She's--she's one of your oldest and best friends. [9]
- You are too young to decide what is best for yourself. [11]
- One of these young brains is like a bunch of India crackers; once touch fire to it and it is best to keep hands off until it has done popping,--if it ever stops. [6]
- Women might dislike you--many of them would--though you could not understand why; but you are good, and that, I suppose, is the best thing in the world. [11]
- I never told you--indeed, I thought I never should tell you; but now I think it's best to do so. [11]
- We both know you will, as you always have, look in every way to the best interests of all. [5]
- Under these circumstances you will readily see why I should not speak in detail of the course I shall deem it best to pursue. [7]
- It's best for you to forget mot I've brought you only pain and dishonor. [13]
- I should tell you that this doubt has been confirmed into something very nearly approaching certainty by the best opinions we have been enabled, in this short space of time, to take upon the subject. [12]
- Some will tell you that the best poets never are. [6]
- When you come, you shall ask what questions you like on that point, and I will answer to the best of my stammering ability. [14]
- Think the lines you mention are by far the best I ever wrote, hey? [6]
- The best thing you could do would be to burn whole rows of these tenements, they are ideal breeding grounds for disease. [9]
- The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. [5]
- And I trust you can say, my lad, that you have made the best of your advantages, though I fear you are of a wild nature, as your father was before you. [9]
- The best thing you can do is to let me die, for then you would be safe once for all from my wickedness, and all would be over and done with. [10]
- That I left you both to yourselves was the best proof I was not neglectful. [11]
- If it suits you best not to answer this, farewell. [7]
- I hear that you are well liked by the best of company. [9]
- I don't think you are the best judge. [11]
- I know that you are a good woman, and a true woman, that you will be the best wife any man could have. [9]
- She could not yet feel any impulse of affection towards her, and she did not as yet understand that what was required of her was the one gift which the best will, the most loving heart in the world, could not offer at a command. [10]
- Philippus had, some years since, been called to the old man's bedside in sickness, and being then a beginner and in no great request, he had given the best of his time and powers to the case. [10]
- But the best years of your life are going, and your education and your nature have not their chance. [11]
- The best capture wouldn't be worth a drachm if we could not say, 'Hurrah! [10]
- Without this he would, no doubt, have done his best for the imperilled sisterhood, but it added to his enjoyment of the grand and dangerous rescue. [10]
- The man who would try to heal every suffering brute was accustomed to see those whom he loved best grieve on his account. [10]
- Any of them would say in a moment, if asked, that it was always right and always best to tell the truth. [5]
- My best possession would not have seemed too dear a price to pay for some magic spell that would have brought you to us when, at the festal games, I danced and sang to the tambourine while the loudest shouts of applause greeted me. [10]
- I thought I would like the translation best, because Greek makes me tired. [5]
- She said she would do her best by him, because, whether he was good, bad, or indifferent, he was the Lord's, and nothing that was the Lord's was a thing to be neglected. [5]
- The best plan would be for Barbara to write to the young knight, informing him of the honour in store for him. [10]
- I think it would be best not to bring it before the Emperor, but to apply to the commander of the corps.... [2]
- And perhaps it would be best if the other never came back. [11]
- Now, under that worthy old man's roof everything was in the best order. [10]
- It would be worth a year of battles to abolish this delusion, though the great sponge of war that wiped it out were moistened with the best blood of the land. [6]
- I'll know the worst or the best of it before three months are out. [11]
- Albeit it had worn another aspect than this brand new flame, which I now felt burning and blazing up from the early-lighted and long smouldering fire, nevertheless it had been of the best, and faithful and true. [10]
- It is one world, mine is another; and sometimes it is lonely, and the best things are not for me. [11]
- She took the world as she found it, and made the best of it. [8]
- They keep the world active, and I owe a great many of my best operations to such men. [5]
- Conversely, take the workman settled down to work in the mill, at the best wages attainable at the time. [4]
- He might have worked it up with more art, and given it a finish which the narration now lacks, but I think best to insert it in its simplicity. [4]
- It is a work worthy of the early, best period, and of a master of the time of Apelies. [10]
- Even with the work and fuss of settling the house Livy has improved--and the best is yet to come. [5]
- Sanity was the word that best described him. [9]
- You take my word for it, the best way is to leave 'em alone. [9]
- A young Spanish woman who taught her dancing succeeded best with her, for she had a passion for that exercise, and had mastered some of the most difficult dances. [6]
- Madame Gravois, elderly, wizened, primp in a starched cotton gown, opened the door herself, fell upon Monsieur Vigo in the Creole fashion; and within a quarter of an hour I was installed in her best room, which gave out on a little court behind. [9]
- He was not without the gift for popularity, and he saw now that he could best attain it by treating Dyck Calhoun well. [11]
- Unless you are without faith that a lie can be successfully contradicted, there is not a word of truth in the charge, and I am just considering a little as to the best shape to put a contradiction in. [7]
- With these, and with the world at large, her manner might best be described as difficult; and I was often amused at the way in which she contrived to keep them at arm's length and make them uncomfortable. [9]
- That Egyptian headdress with the vulture's head which the king likes best to see me in, the young Greek Lysias and the Roman too, call barbaric, and so every one must call it who is not interested in the Egyptians. [10]
- Wolf was acquainted with the city, and perhaps would spare him a walk by informing him where the sick lads would find the best shelter. [10]
- You've helped him with the best of advice. [6]
- If you'll come with me I'll give you a drink of hard cider, the best was ever made. [11]
- When a person with his millions gives a hundred thousand dollars it makes a great noise in the world, but he does not miss it; it's the widow's mite that makes no noise but does the best work. [5]
- I go away with feelings that may be conceived but cannot be described, feeling within myself that desolating truth that my best affections have experienced this night a stifler! [12]
- Do your best with Carnegie, and don't wait to consider any of my intermediate suggestions or talks about our raising half of the $200,000 ourselves. [5]
- This power, combined with a fine intellectual and indomitable energy, and a taste altogether military, constituted in him, as seemed to me, the best natural talent in that department I ever knew. [7]
- Speaking thickly and with a faraway look in his shining eyes, he told the whole story of his life: his marriage, Natasha's love for his best friend, her betrayal of him, and all his own simple relations with her. [2]
- She returned home with a bright face, happy in having done her best, and instantly went into the kitchen to see Barbara. [10]
- Regards and best wishes to Mrs. Bret and the family. [5]
- But if she wishes to fit herself for the best married life, she may not disdain the help of the cap and gown in devoting herself to the highest culture. [4]
- Accept my best wishes for your individual welfare, and for the welfare and happiness of the whole British people. [7]
- Perhaps she only wished to arouse Navarrete to do his best at the trial. [10]
- The best and wisest has his defects, and sometimes they would seem to be very grave ones if brought up against him in the form of accusation. [6]
- It was a wise move, for he found Regnault de Chartres and some more of the King's pet rascals there trying their best to disperse the army, and crippling all the efforts of Joan's generals to head it for Orleans. [5]
- Hildanus was a wise and learned man, one of the best surgeons of his time. [6]
- He was a wise and humane judge, and he clearly did his honest best and fairest,--according to his lights. [5]
- If you are wise and diligent, you can establish relations with the best of them which they will find it very hard to break. [3]
- I commanded my wine at the Coffee House with the best of the bucks, and was made a member of the South River and Jockey clubs. [9]
- You must let Windlehurst and me think for you; and, oh, my darling, you cannot know how much I care for your best good! [11]
- You and I will win our place as high as the best of them. [11]
- Our shout alone will shake them down, and they will fall on our side, we may choose the best for our own use. [10]
- Not any here will refuse to drink her health right cordially in this bumper of wine, for each and every one has personally known, and loved, and honored the very best one of them all--his own mother. [5]
- Poor man!--she said.--And will leave the best room empty! [6]
- The best scheme will have the preference; and you seem to me to be the man to win the prize, and, with it, a wide and noble field of work in the future. [10]
- Aye, and I will give my best Iceland Gerfalcon for a lame crow if every word she spoke concerning the death of Junker Herdegen was not false knavery. [10]
- The best way will be to request Asclepiodorus--" But here Euergetes interrupted the queen, clapping his hands loudly and laughing: "That is right, sister! [10]
- I know not why, but there are vague whispers that he is acting against the Englishman for causes best known at Versailles, which have nothing to do with our affairs here. [11]
- And that is why I walk on Coniston Water--to choose the best site for a dam. [9]
- Tell Neithotep, in whose hands thou art as wax, that he has found the best means of forcing me to grant demands, which otherwise I should have refused. [10]
- The man to whom Hebe proffers nectar does not ask for even the best wine of Byblus. [10]
- And that daughter, whom he loved best in all the world, he was perchance to see no more. [9]
- Although I was wholly inexperienced, I dismounted in the best time on record. [5]
- But Mr. Fox, who was the soul of the club, had the best array of any. [9]
- The young Doctor, who was in the best of spirits, had been laughing and chatting with the two Annexes. [6]
- Thus no one who valued his life could escape the watchful eye of the police, and the thief sacrificed the best part of his gains in order to save his life. [10]
- There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. [5]
- Here was one who might have governed a province and still have been a woman, one who had taken into exile the best of safeguards against misfortune,--humor and an indomitable spirit. [9]
- The enterprising group who have taken all the best seats in the bow, with the intention of gormandizing the views, exhibit little staying power; either the monotony or the wind drives them into the cabin. [4]
- But for Nitetis, who had been spoilt for such things by an intimate acquaintance with the best Greek poets, they could have but little charm. [10]
- The five hundred who during the next three months are to register the laws find quarters as best they can. [9]
- The best people, who are determined to broaden all their 'a''s, will forget in moments of excitement, and fall back into old habits. [4]
- I like Mr. Whiting very much, and hence would wish him to remain or resign as best suits himself. [7]
- I'd like to whisper in his ear that he'd better be lookin' sharp for the M'Mahon Gang, and that if he's a man of peace he'd best take a holiday till after next week, or get smallpox or something. [11]
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