How to Use furthest in a Sentence

furthest

adverb or adjective
  • Of those plays, the furthest away from the endzone was the UMass 23-yard line.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Le was parked in the south parking lot, furthest away from the testing site.
    Seamus McAvoy, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The features that are furthest away from the camera are blue, while the closest are hot pink.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The Aztecs weren’t alone in their interest, just furthest along.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Adam Barry’s went furthest and Ross James’ punt wasn’t far behind.
    oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The last dam — the one furthest downstream in the Kherson region — is controlled by Russian forces.
    Lori Hinnant and Vasilisa Stepanenko, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
  • Elliott will be the playoff racer furthest back in the field, starting 23rd.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The Kakhovka dam — the one furthest downstream — is controlled by Russian forces.
    Time, 6 June 2023
  • 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
  • The Tennessee and Texas laws go furthest in specifying what teachers may and may not say.
    New York Times, 29 June 2021
  • His low desk was shoved into the corner furthest from the windows, as if Gussow had wanted to muffle the city’s distractions.
    Curbed, 26 Jan. 2024
  • At the end of each episode, the contestant who places their X on a map furthest away from the bus’s actual location has to leave the game and loses their shot at winning a cash prize.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2023
  • If the project is approved, Costco would be built on the southwest corner of the property – furthest away from Four Bridges residents.
    Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 23 June 2021
  • The Middle East and North Africa comprised the region furthest from achieving parity.
    Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 20 June 2023
  • 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 kids who were already disadvantaged are the ones who’ve fallen furthest behind.
    Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 June 2021
  • Eviation Aircraft is one of the startups furthest down this runway.
    Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The winter solstice, which falls on Friday, Dec. 21 this year, is the exact opposite — when the earth’s axis tilted furthest away from the sun, marking the start of winter.
    Gina Martinez, Time, 21 June 2018
  • This shift has gone furthest in the Maghreb, where Islamists have participated in elections and in governments.
    John Waterbury, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019

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