How to Use innermost in a Sentence

innermost

1 of 2 adjective
  • She revealed her innermost feelings.
  • With a paring knife, slice away the light, soft innermost leaves and the purple center.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The innermost rim formed later, when a mountain at the crater’s center collapsed.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2026
  • In any event, you’re being encouraged to take a step back from the monotony and tune into your innermost feelings.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Home represents the essence of our innermost memories.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2026
  • You’re being asked to define success on your own terms without abandoning your innermost feelings.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The moon will also peak in your sign on June 29, mirroring back your innermost feelings and longings.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • Our design’s innermost part is the rotor lamination, which carries the copper winding on an iron core.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
  • Your interest in their experiences, troubles, and innermost dreams is true.
    — Talia Argondezzi, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Cancer usually begins in the innermost layer called the mucosa.
    — Carrie Madormo, Health, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Inge Lehmann, the woman who discovered Earth's innermost secret.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The innermost region of any solar system, closest to the parent star, will be extremely hot and subject to large amounts of radiation.
    — Big Think, 30 Apr. 2026
  • This material would then re-form into some new moons — such as (possibly) Enceladus and the innermost ones within the rings — and the rings themselves.
    — Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The first wall is the innermost solid surface of a fusion reactor’s vacuum chamber, which directly faces the plasma.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The Maldives government said on Monday that four bodies were spotted in the innermost part of the cave by the Finnish diving team.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 19 May 2026
  • As the album unfolds, we’re transported to the bright lights of festival main stages, the dark corners of warehouse clubs, and the innermost monologues of modern men and women.
    — Kat Bein, SPIN, 21 May 2026
  • Bending or twisting the cylinder causes the outermost layer to move further relative to the innermost layer.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Jan. 2017
  • But while Elsa is quite withholding, Maurel is an intimate filmmaker who likes to stay close to her actors to show their innermost thoughts.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 25 May 2026
  • The scientists found the three innermost stars are more massive and hotter than the sun, while the outermost component, the fourth star, is cooler, less massive and thus similar to the sun.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • This is a very compact system — all four planets could easily fit inside the orbit of our solar system's innermost planet, Mercury.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Your innermost expression of self can illuminate someone’s darkness.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The full moon in your sign on April 1 brought light to your innermost feelings, clarifying everything from your needs to your role in a significant partnership.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Though difficult to read in the image provided, officials said that the innermost circle would see major structural damage, while the secondary ring could see moderate damage.
    — Austin Turner, CBS News, 24 May 2026
  • In a total lunar eclipse, the entire moon moves into the innermost part of the planet's shadow and blocks it completely from the sun, NASA says.
    — Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • And, in a number of cases, researchers have found evidence that this is happening, with one case of an extremely young star emitting flares seemingly in response to the orbit of its innermost planet.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2026
  • Three Finnish expert deep and cave divers joined the mission and located the four bodies last week in the innermost chamber of the cave at a depth of around 200 feet, or 60 meters.
    — CBS News, 23 May 2026
  • The moon's path during a total lunar eclipse The Earth's shadow will cover the entire moon's surface at the center of the umbra, the deepest, innermost part of the shadow.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Your planetary ruler, Jupiter, switches signs from Cancer to Leo on June 30th, urging you to transform your innermost philosophies.
    — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 26 Dec. 2025
  • In fact, the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung infused his sessions with tarot to gain a deeper understanding of his patients’ innermost sentiments.
    — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Similar to cooking the turkey in parts, cooks should use a food thermometer to ensure that the innermost part of the thigh, the innermost part of the wing, and the thickest part of the breast all reach 165°F.
    — Kate Perez, USA Today, 24 Nov. 2025

innermost

2 of 2 noun
  • Same for the many drains and manhole covers on the innermost lane.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The names of Marcus and Porter are among the very first in the innermost loop.
    — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Most teenagers would be mortified at their innermost thoughts spilling out in public.
    — Diep Tran, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The innermost layer at the hair’s center is called the medulla.
    — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The innermost fence is topped with barbed wire, and ground-floor windows at all three buildings are boarded up.
    — Steve Karnowski, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Both our public and our innermost lives depend upon it.
    — Time, 12 May 2026
  • The innermost portion is moving too slow; its angle of attack is too large, and it is stalled.
    — Popular Science, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The innermost circle is full with two electrons, and the middle circle is full with eight.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2019
  • Convention has fled to her innermost shrine there to blush unseen and waste her orisons on a futile prayer.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2021
  • This vibrant town of about 700 is tucked away in the innermost nook of its namesake fjord.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Spending time with those in your innermost circle should get you some amazing results.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • While the innermost fence around the Capitol has not been removed, the razor wire on top of it has.
    — Andrew Solender, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2021
  • At tree planting, set the innermost ring 10 inches away from the central trunk.
    — Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2018
  • Could a doctor, who knows the body of a patient so well, as a partner be unaware of their innermost feelings?
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Some discomfort with telling our innermost stories to a stranger is to be expected.
    — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The walls are three bricks thick with the innermost bricks (wythes) having an exciting history.
    — David Buie, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Nothing quite matches the feeling of someone trusting you to tell their innermost story the right way.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The siblings had sought shelter in Albert’s bedroom, the innermost room of the house and the place where they had been born.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2021
  • Some of those passages will bring Cassini even closer to the planet as well as the innermost D ring.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Meditation is touted as a route to knowledge of your deepest self, your innermost thoughts.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Then, the innermost layer was made to shrink above 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Every two weeks, the innermost ring can be removed, until your cat can at long last poop or pee into a gaping, wide-open toilet bowl.
    — Candice Wang, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2020
  • To arouse thought, to generate discussion, to express the artist’s innermost thoughts?
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 July 2021
  • Imagine the innermost layer as where the feelings are, and the outermost as the way those feelings are expressed.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The force of his blood ripped open the innermost layer of his aorta, spilling blood between the other muscular stratums.
    — Sabrina Qiao, refinery29.com, 23 Nov. 2021
  • One of them, says Stroock, is whether plants ever allow the innermost layers of their leaves, called mesophyll, to dry out.
    — Keith Gillogly, Wired, 2 July 2021
  • If your code’s innermost Matryoshka doll runs Log4j, good luck finding it.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired, 16 Dec. 2021
  • In fact, the innermost ring, which is very tilted, contains enough dust to create 30 planets with the mass of Earth.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Sep. 2020
  • In the very last phase of the mission, Cassini dove through the gap between Saturn and the planet’s innermost ring.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
  • White House officials stressed that there’s no member of Biden’s innermost circle who deals with just one part of the party.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2022

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