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Meanings of furthest in English

(Comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order.

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Usage of furthest in English
1
Nora was in the furthest corner of the room, seated in gloom.
Melbourne House, Volume 2
2
Whatever the building had been, it had stood furthest from the sea.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
3
I see other stars arising in the furthest depths of the East.
Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
4
I used to think my life was the furthest thing from political.
Radio NZ
5
These men were in touch with the furthest ends of the earth.
Gossamer
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The sisters drew back horror-struck into the furthest corner of the room.
Miss or Mrs.?
7
From Plevlje I rode to Prijepolje, the furthest military outpost of Austria.
Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
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Pay slipped furthest in graduate jobs, in retail and in customer services.
The Guardian
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Thus, what fact the very thing I had gone furthest astray in.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
10
They are placed in their assumed chronological order, the earliest furthest off.
A History of Greek Art / With an Introductory Chapter on Art in ...
11
So Buddhism is perhaps the furthest you can get from mind control.
Underground
12
Over to the Kernot Range is the furthest; that's about sixty miles.
A Town like Alice
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He selected the one that stood furthest out and steered for it.
The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the...
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I should think in ten days or two weeks at the furthest.
Little Maid Marian
15
He should be back, he supposed, in a week at the furthest.
The Claverings
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The furthest records or surmises or inferences simply accept it as existing.
The Lair of the White Worm
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