How to Use furthest in a Sentence

furthest

adverb or adjective
  • Le was parked in the south parking lot, furthest away from the testing site.
    — Seamus McAvoy, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The bar furthest away from land and the highest in the air had the cases worth the most.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Perhaps furthest along in the process is the one from Novavax.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The features that are furthest away from the camera are blue, while the closest are hot pink.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2020
  • At the same time, precincts in the city with the lowest poverty rates shifted furthest left.
    — Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The Aztecs weren’t alone in their interest, just furthest along.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2023
  • Inside the bowl, arguably the best seats were furthest away in a grassy knoll toward the back end of the venue.
    — Andrew J. Campa, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
  • Of those plays, the furthest away from the endzone was the UMass 23-yard line.
    — Matt Cohen | [email protected], al, 2 Sep. 2023
  • This will be the most challenging of the three elements of the system and seems to be the furthest away.
    — James Stavridis, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Antipodes on a sphere are the pair of points furthest away from each other, and on Earth, most of them are in the oceans.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2017
  • Winter happens when the northern hemisphere is tilted its furthest away from the sun.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The winter solstice marks the point each year when the northern hemisphere is tilted furthest away from the sun.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Adam Barry’s went furthest and Ross James’ punt wasn’t far behind.
    — oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2022
  • All the charmers listed here are under 80 miles from the city (closest to furthest).
    — Anna Spiegel, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024
  • And the areas that suffer the most during our problems are really the furthest away from the plants.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Elliott will be the playoff racer furthest back in the field, starting 23rd.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Of all three from this group, the Australians are by far the most likely to go furthest in the competition.
    — SI.com, 21 June 2019
  • The kids who were already disadvantaged are the ones who’ve fallen furthest behind.
    — Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 June 2021
  • When tapping icons on the edge of the screen, tap the center of the button or the side of the button/icon furthest away from the edge of the display.
    — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Eviation Aircraft is one of the startups furthest down this runway.
    — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The Kakhovka dam — the one furthest downstream — is controlled by Russian forces.
    — Time, 6 June 2023
  • And so, every show, Garth will send his crew up to some of the highest sections furthest away from the stage and look for fans to bring down to the front.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2021
  • This time, Williams threw it down on the court furthest away from the main entrance with hardly anyone in the facility.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 20 Oct. 2022
  • As usual, the children who were furthest behind before the pandemic are going to suffer the most.
    — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The Ridley feature is furthest along in development and is likely to open on that date.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023
  • The Tennessee and Texas laws go furthest in specifying what teachers may and may not say.
    — New York Times, 29 June 2021
  • The metal, ridged, and relatively narrow focus ring is the furthest forward on the barrel.
    — PCMAG, 15 July 2024
  • Here and there giant flowers grew, glowing with a peculiar light like flickering lamps, and furthest in among the shadows moved tiny dots of cold green.
    — Frances Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The way John describes it, given anybody in the family a $1 bill and Misu would find the way to stretch it furthest.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 11 May 2023
  • Sometimes the best couples costumes are the ones that stray furthest away from the traditional ones that are meant for, well, actual couples.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2021

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