Example sentences for: remotest

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

  • Lidiar , for example, is what a man does with a bull in a bullring, and to him the process is not in the remotest sense a fight . It is a lid , and if you do not understand that word you will not understand him.

  • Over the next decade, I made my biographer's rounds, like the postman deterred neither by sleet nor snow--nor by occasional emanations of reticence or frostiness from my subject--from the routine (often a fascinating routine) of poring over his unpublished manuscripts in the rare book and manuscript division of the University of Chicago Library; lugging my laptop all over America in quest of high-school classmates, cousins, friends, and lovers of my famously peripatetic subject; driving Avis rental cars into the remotest suburbs of Los Angeles and flying into Buffalo, N.Y., in pursuit of letters in private hands.

  • Kedgeree , a vegetable curry, popular with seamen, has, notwithstanding tarry appetites, not the remotest connection with matters nautical; kickback is shown by the OED2e to be a 20th-century coinage, and there is not evidence to suggest it ever had anything to do with maritime affairs; and kite , for which the OED2e includes a 7th-century quotation for the (original) bird sense, found a metaphoric application to sail not much before the middle of the 19th century.

  • Citizens, even in the remotest hamlets, could readily communicate with one another, monitoring the doings of Congress, and state and local governments.

  • Could he, by the remotest chance, have been the inspiration for A Boy named Sue?


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