Use most in a sentence
Sentences starting with most
- Most of the young men knew a portion of it, and it was not customary to venture much beyond this known portion. [5]
- Most of the young demoiselles are robed in a cloud of white from head to foot, though many trick themselves out more elaborately. [5]
- Most of the yearly ads were patent-medicine stereotypes, and we used to fence with them. [5]
- Most of his writings are repetitions and recastings of the old material, with such reflections as occur to him from time to time. [4]
- Most of the world has now outlived good part of these harms, though by no means all of them; but in our South they flourish pretty forcefully still. [5]
- Most self-made Englishmen, with such a burly exterior and energy, and engaged in such pursuits, could not, to save themselves from hanging, have impressed her as Mr. Vandewaters did. [11]
- Most Englishmen familiar with Claridge Pasha's life and aims will ask--" An exclamation broke from the old man. [11]
- Most of us wish to be good, but we are quicksilver. [11]
- Most future notices will in all likelihood have a reflection of the Spectator in them. [14]
- Most of us will get knocked out up there in the Soudan. [11]
Sentences ending with most
- Such as I was that in thy countenance Found favour, from her it was gathered most. [11]
- How distant Ruth was now from him, now, when she might need him most. [5]
- This at least was a relief; it was the question she had feared most. [9]
- Sterling and the villages north, where there's universal gun-packing and fights every day--where there are more men like him, it seems to me they would attract him most. [13]
- She was much too young to suffer so, but the young ever suffer most. [11]
- When I was through, he asked me what had impressed me most. [5]
- The giant of the party had suffered most. [11]
- The weather suffered the most. [5]
- At bedtime, when the family were breaking up for the night, she privately looted one of the brushes, saying to herself, "It's the one he has used, the most. [5]
- Now it was the fact that he refrained from comment that pleased her most. [9]
Short sentences using most
- A most extraordinary young man. [5]
- It is most wonderful. [5]
- Most of them used to. [4]
- Ian, I'm most upset. [11]
- It was most unpleasant. [11]
- A most important thing. [11]
- Well, most of them don't. [8]
- Your most obedient, sir. [9]
- It was most singular. [4]
- Doubtful, most people said. [5]
Sentences containing most two or more times
- He contented himself with the belief that the most vigorous natures are the most difficult to rouse. [11]
- Two and two will undoubtedly make four, irrespective of the emotions or other idiosyncrasies of the calculator; and the three angles of a triangle insist on being equal to two right angles, in the face of the most impassioned rhetoric or the most inspired verse. [6]
- I suppose you will get a prize, because you have created the most prodigious and in all ways most wonderful Fair the planet has ever seen. [5]
- I know that whenever I have said most, and felt most, something in me kept saying all the time: 'You're lying, you're lying, you're lying! [11]
- He knew that when she seemed most inert, most impassive to turbulent occurrences, most careless of consequences, she was but waiting till, in her own mind, her plans were grown; so that she should see her end clearly ere she spoke or moved. [11]
- Who might guess what was best for the other; what was most merciful, most good? [11]
- Most of them were personally known to Cleopatra who, to their mutual pleasure and advantage, had measured her intellectual powers with the most brilliant minds of their body. [10]
- To him she was the most original creature he had ever met, the most natural, the most humorous of temper, the most sincere. [11]
- To most it was only an incident in the afternoon round and drive, but everybody liked to go there, for it is one of the most charming of the moderate-sized villas. [4]
- The College Pharmacopoeia was loaded with the most absurd compound mixtures, one of the most complex of which (the same which the Reverend Mr. Harward, "Lecturer at the Royal Chappel in Boston," tried to simplify), was not dropped until the year 1801. [3]
More example sentences with the word most in them
- Among other presents Zopyrus received a gold hand-mill weighing six talents, the most honorable and distinguished gift a Persian monarch could bestow upon a subject. [10]
- We marched into Zermatt the next day, and were received with the most lavish honors and applause. [5]
- With what fiery zeal Wolf persuaded him, how convincing was his assurance that a substitute for Johann of Cologne, and a most admirable one, was actually to be found here in Ratisbon! [10]
- Have you not yourself seen, even in your short life, that what is highest and greatest can in its excess, be all that is most hideous? [10]
- General Grant and yourself have been conspicuous in our most important successes; and for me to interfere and thus magnify a breach between you could not but be of evil effect. [7]
- I shall await your most gracious permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a secretary rather than commander in the army. [2]
- And we assure your Highness that for this mark of honour that has been conferred on you by Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen-Empress, we feel no less proud than your Highness. [5]
- It's because of your concern for the welfare of your workers in the mills that I ventured to come and talk to you of how most of them live when they're at home," replied Siddons, as Janet thought, rather neatly. [9]
- Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations. [7]
- The most conspicuous young woman in the group, in riding clothes, was seated on the railing, with the toe of one boot on the ground. [9]
- When, as a young professor, I told the grey-haired author in my mother's name something which could not fail to afford him pleasure, I received the most eager assent to my query whether he still remembered her. [10]
- I say two young people, for the one who counts most years seems to me to be really the younger of the pair. [6]
- Many of these young people will jump up twenty times a day and run to dabble the tips of their fingers in water, after touching the most inoffensive objects. [6]
- Among the many young men who frequented her house every day, Boris Drubetskoy, who had already achieved great success in the service, was the most intimate friend of the Bezukhov household since Helene's return from Erfurt. [2]
- Of the other young men of the village Gifted Hopkins was perhaps the most fervent of her admirers, as he had repeatedly shown by effusions in verse, of which, under the thinnest of disguises, she was the object. [6]
- Here is a young man writing to me from a Western college, and wants me to send him a list of the books which I think would be most useful to him. [6]
- Here were this young lady and his friend, who had known each other for three days, perhaps, in the most casual way, and her friends had her already as good as married to him and off on a wedding journey. [4]
- Post-horses took the young couple in the most magnificent weather to the distant Prussian capital. [10]
- I quite understand you; and until I feel that you have good reason once more to respect the maniac who lost you by his own fault, I, who fought you like your most deadly foe, will not even speak the final word. [10]
- She's never known you, never seen what most of us have seen, that all you have--or nearly all--is your lovely looks, and what they call a kind heart. [11]
- I must tell you, mon cher," he continued in the sad and measured tones of a man who intends to tell a long story, "that our name is one of the most ancient in France. [2]
- I understand all you would say to me; but he who has most at stake has said it, and, if he failed, do you think, madame, that you could succeed? [11]
- In the museums you will find acres of the most strange and fascinating things; but all museums are fascinating, and they do so tire your eyes, and break your back, and burn out your vitalities with their consuming interest. [5]
- Six months ago you were, apparently, one of the most orthodox rectors in the diocese. [9]
- But I bid you welcome, Richard," said his Lordship; "you come with two of the most delightful vagabonds in the world. [9]
- I might refer you to those which you yourself preached as late as last June, in a sermon which was one of the finest and most scholarly efforts I ever heard. [9]
- When Orion tempted you to perjure yourself, did he behave as my friend or as my foe, my bitterest and most implacable enemy? [10]
- But always, always, you think most of yourself. [11]
- And I thought you the most constant of all. [9]
- Her religion, which you once disliked so much, I will venture you now prize most highly. [7]
- I must thank you most truly and heartily, but, Monsieur, you and yours are not for me. [11]
- I think of you most as you were that minute, Cousin Fanny, when I come in. [11]
- At first, as you know, the hope of making him a combatant for the possessions which I have learned through you to regard as the highest and most sacred. [10]
- You most of you know me. [10]
- For somehow when you get at the bottom of most crimes--the small ones leastways--you find they weren't quite meant. [11]
- Why, Speed, if you did not love her although you might not wish her death, you would most certainly be resigned to it. [7]
- I already behold you creating other works to the delight of gods and men; but this Demeter extorts boundless, enthusiastic appreciation; both as a whole, and in detail, it is faultless and worthy of the most ardent praise. [10]
- 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]
- In the daytime you can hitch it up against the wall, out of the way--and then you have a big unencumbered and most comfortable room to spread out in. [5]
- I will cure you because you are the person to whom the infamous wretch most ardently wished the sorest trouble. [10]
- I have read you a few extracts, most of them of rather slight texture, and some of them, you perhaps thought, whimsical. [6]
- I can tell you (if you don't know it) that you have found the most artful, lying, pilfering, devilish little minx that was ever born.--Have you got her here? [12]
- It made distinct, yet with no obvious purpose, how good were friendship and confidence--which might be the most unselfish thing in the world--between two men. [11]
- Big-featured and stern, yet he had the kindly eye of the most indomitable of frontier fighters, and I doubted not the truth of what was said of him--that he could kill any redskin hand-to-hand. [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]
- How many amusing, yet edifying and touching anecdotes, the Abbess Kunigunde had narrated of him and the most beloved of his followers! [10]
- Now, for some years it has been inadequate, frequently unintelligible, often grossly misleading, failing wholly to give the real spirit and meaning of the most important discussions; and it is as dry as chips besides. [4]
- How she had yearned and pined until the most fervent desire of her heart was fulfilled! [10]
- It was the year in which he entered fully into the publishing business and launched one of the most spectacular of all publishing adventures, The Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant. [5]
- Janet's heart was wrung as she gazed at the gaunt, bewildered faces growing daily more tragic, more bewildered and gaunt; she marvelled at the animal-like patience of these Europeans, at the dumb submission of most of them to privations that struck her as appalling. [9]
- In February he wrote: "Our two months in Florence have been the most ridiculous time that ever even half-witted people passed. [5]
- Gras had already written twice to his master, telling him with what gratifying patience Hermon was beginning to submit to his great misfortune, when the notary Melampus returned from Alexandria with news which produced the most delightful transformation in the blind artist's outer life. [10]
- The most original writer of his time, he took no credit for pure invention and allowed none to others. [5]
- An Englishman may write with the most brutal frankness about any man or institution among us and we republish him without dreaming of altering a line or a word. [5]
- That she could write most agreeably is certain. [6]
- Privileges like these would render the possession of such securities to the amount limited most desirable to every person of small means who might be able to save enough for the purpose. [7]
- From these it would readily appear where a given amount of expenditure would do the most good. [7]
- Some, no doubt, would rather have fought than have had peace at the price; but they could not free their minds from the sacred force which had brought most of the crowd of faction-fighters to their knees. [11]
- The diverse indications would puzzle the most acute dissector. [4]
- They said we would not go ten miles, and I most solemnly believe that no one but "Uncle Billy" and an army organized and equipped by him could have gone ten miles. [9]
- The most favourable would not be too good, the reverse scarcely too severe. [10]
- Now that he would learn the actual truth from the most credible eye-witnesses she no longer dreaded even the worst calumny. [10]
- Of course he would have two sides to his life like most men: that lived before the world, and that of the home. [11]
- I believe it would have been found that most of these persons were of ardent temperament and of considerable imagination, and that their history would show that Perkinism was not the first nor the last hobby-horse they rode furiously. [6]
- Charley said he would go with me,--Charley, my Captain's beloved friend, gentle, but full of spirit and liveliness, cultivated, social, affectionate, a good talker, a most agreeable letter-writer, observing, with large relish of life, and keen sense of humor. [6]
- The Federal Government would find its highest interest in such a measure, as one of the most efficient means of self-preservation. [7]
- In most, rashness would be the outcome of such a marriage of characteristics; but clear-sightedness, decision, and a little unscrupulousness had carried into success many daring actions of his life. [11]
- I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in. [5]
- Of course it would be a dull world if we could not criticise our friends, but the most unprofitable and unsatisfactory criticism is that by comparison. [4]
- There was nothing worthy of special note in the trip to Frederick, except our passing a squad of Rebel prisoners, whom I missed seeing, as they flashed by, but who were said to be a most forlorn-looking crowd of scarecrows. [6]
- Like most inspirations worth anything, it was very simple. [9]
- Even the most worldly-minded of her friends would have taken such an impeachment ill. [10]
- We gave the world tobacco and the potato, perhaps the most important contributions to the content and the fatness of the world made by any new country, and it was a noble ambition to give it new styles of art and literature also. [4]
- Noble and beautiful works of art should not be subjected to haste; and this majestic new world is indeed a most noble and beautiful work. [5]
- The throng of workers at the granaries had lessened; most of them were now supplied with as much food as they could carry. [10]
- He went to work, therefore, in the most systematic manner. [6]
- Morgan's most interesting work, 'The American Beaver,' 1868, p. 300. [1]
- One has to work, however, in one's own way, after one's own idiosyncrasies, and here is the book that represents one of my own idiosyncrasies in its most primitive form. [11]
- He always had work, he never saved a penny, he was a most persuasive borrower, he was in debt to every pilot on the river, and to the majority of the captains. [5]
- Passing by such words as are poisonous, I can swallow most others, and chew such as I cannot swallow. [6]
- No, upon my word and honor, I never did; I appeal to the Most High to bear me out in this matter. [5]
- Besides, like most woodsmen, he was superstitious. [11]
- Thus she was wont, at the most unexpected moments, to betray the passion within her, the passion that made him sick with desire. [9]
- You are a wonderful creature, the most wonderful in the world--you and your other half together --Miss Sullivan, I mean, for it took the pair of you to make a complete and perfect whole. [5]
- And he often wondered whether they did not get tired standing on their feet all day long, hesitating to ask them; speculated on their lives--flung as most of them were on a heedless city, and left to shift for themselves. [9]
- She was a woman, and therefore the daughter of pretence even when most real. [11]
- 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]
- When the old woman uses the litter the cover will be removed and people will see her; when it is closed, the most sharp-sighted can not discover who is within. [10]
- She is a woman of most remarkable discernment. [4]
- Why is that woman always out of the way when she is most wanted? [12]
- A great many witnesses were introduced and examined, but I shall only mention those whose testimony seemed most important. [7]
- She admired Henderson, without thinking any too well of the world in general, and she admired him for the qualities that were most conformable to his inclination. [4]
- Productions without talent, without spirit, without discrimination, flat and pitiful eulogies, exaggerations surpassing the limits of the most robust faith, invectives against such as dared to doubt the dogmas which had been proclaimed, or catalogues of remedies; of such materials is it composed! [3]
- It was not without regret that he did this, for his cousin was a very charming woman, and devoted exclusively to the most exclusive social life. [4]
- It was not without its natural influence upon him; but he regarded it most as a comfortable advertisement, and he lamented every day that this never- failing gas well was not near a large population, and he still its owner. [11]
- Impregnable Malta surrenders without a shot; his most reckless schemes are crowned with success. [2]
- When they were within thirty yards of me they let their long lances droop to a level, depressed their mailed heads, and so, with their horse-hair plumes streaming straight out behind, most gallant to see, this lightning express came tearing for me! [5]
- It is quite within the probabilities that a century hence she will be the most imposing figure that has cast its shadow across the globe since the inauguration of our era. [5]
- All this he withheld from the older men and merely briefly described the splendid banquet which Caesarion, pallid and listless as ever, had directed, and Antyllus especially had enlivened with the most reckless mirth. [10]
- Mr Slum then withdrew to alter the acrostic, after taking a most affectionate leave of his patroness, and promising to return, as soon as he possibly could, with a fair copy for the printer. [12]
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