Example sentences for: tops

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

  • Meanwhile, Parisian store windows are full of columnar skirts meant to graze the shoe tops, and women in the street adhere in great numbers to the miniskirt--that is, anything 3 inches or more above the knee.

  • The LAT decision to lead with one hundred deaths caused in Mexico's leading resort city by Hurricane Pauline was not quite as lonely--the storm is USAT 's second lead and tops the Wall Street Journal 's world-wide news digest--but was no doubt influenced by the paper's Mexican demographic.

  • It was discovered--and this should no longer be any cause for wonder--that a sentence containing however could also begin with but . Moreover, but could appear directly in front of nevertheless . But this development reached its zenith with the use of but as a topper conjunction (see the beginning of this sentence); the topper but does not in reality indicate a contradiction, for it always appears at the start of a sentence which is, truth be, in harmony with preceding sentences, but rather it tops the previous statements by pointing unerringly to that which is promised by contradiction, namely illumination.

  • The hype revs up for McCourt's follow-up to his best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes . 'Tis tops all fall preview lists, and now the first review is in: Michiko Kakutani (the New York Times ) says it's "a considerably angrier book than Angela's Ashes . ...

  • The tentative settlement of the UPS strike leads at USA Today and the New York Times , and tops the Wall Street Journal front-page news digest.


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