Example sentences for: penultimate

How can you use “penultimate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Both the LAT and the NYT make this point high up, while USAT holds it for the penultimate paragraph.

  • This domain adopts the DPBB fold, in which the signature DbDGD motif, shared by RDRP and DDRP, is ensconced in the insert between the ultimate and penultimate β-strands.

  • Decent reviews for former New York Times executive editor Max Frankel's memoirs: Ward Just calls it a "a smart, tough, scrupulous book" in the New York Times Book Review ; in that fair journal's traditional negative-comment spot (the penultimate paragraph) all Just can come up with is that there's "a whiff of the puritan about Max Frankel, and perhaps also the rustle of score-settling."

  • Two features of the ultimate or penultimate 2-dimensional patterns formed by the positioning of ball-form macrofiber aggregate structures have been characterized here: their non-uniform randomness, and the spacing distributions of nearest neighbors.

  • The tried and true formula for an 800 word review is to meander on the general topic for three paragraphs, summarize the book in four more, note a flaw in the penultimate paragraph, and close with an upbeat summation on the order of "Still, Moon Over Nova Scotia is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the shifting fortunes of the Atlantic eel fishing industry."


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