How to Use farthest in a Sentence

farthest

1 of 2 adjective
  • An angry man no one seems to know seethes at the end of the farthest pew.
    — Rima Parikh, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The two play one round in the last few minutes by seeing who can throw it the farthest.
    — Hahna Yoon, Wired, 13 Oct. 2021
  • One minute later, those aboard will reach apogee — the flight point farthest from Earth.
    — Algernon D'ammassa, USA TODAY, 10 July 2021
  • Solstices mark the days when the sun’s arc through the sky is the farthest north or south from the equator.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Officials said this is the farthest west the insect has been found.
    — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 27 July 2021
  • Sound travels in waves and tends to travel farthest in open landscapes.
    — Wudan Yan, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The winner is the athlete who travels the farthest and who flies and lands with the best style.
    — Amy Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Turn dough by 90 degrees so that open ends are closest and farthest from you.
    — Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The premise of the race was to see whose robot could travel the farthest in 3 seconds.
    — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Punch holes in at least two plastic cups, string them up, and see who can propel them the fastest and farthest using a squirt gun.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 6 May 2022
  • If not, the Corps takes that sediment to the farthest out-to-sea dumping grounds away from the bay.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2021
  • That means clouds tend to appear in the skies over its equator when the planet is farthest from the sun and at its coldest.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 June 2021
  • On April 13, the moon will be at apogee, its farthest from the Earth for this orbit.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The team who gets the most players the farthest in the shortest amount of time will win, and will also get a nice cash prize as a bonus.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • In the end, McCormick was not the choice of many of the party’s farthest-right voters.
    — Marc Levy, ajc, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The farthest the show travels into the future is around the year 2040.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
  • Walston is the youngest and probably the farthest from the majors but might have the highest ceiling.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The former is what’s going on this weekend as Venus appears at its farthest from the Sun.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Block Island, 15 miles off the coast at its farthest point, has always been at the mercy of the four winds.
    — Elizabeth Royte, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
  • These supermoons make the moon appear 14% bigger in the sky than the smallest, farthest moon, the puny moon.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 23 Apr. 2021
  • At this World Cup, the farthest the Americans will go for a game is about 25 miles.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The Belmont distance of 1½ miles is likely the farthest that any of these horses will ever run on the dirt.
    — John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
  • The First Avenger came out in 2011 but is the farthest back in time, storywise.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The 1-1/16-mile San Felipe will be the farthest these two horses have run.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The solstices are the two days when the sun's path is farthest from the equator, causing the greatest difference in the amount of sunlight.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2021
  • In Nordic combined, the athlete who jumps the farthest and impresses judges the most starts the cross-country portion of the event with a lead.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The past six Boddie winners or the state team that has advanced the farthest, have won the Class 7A title.
    — Dennis Victory, al, 20 Aug. 2021
  • At that same moment, the South Pole is farthest from the sun, and parts of the Antarctic are in darkness for nearly the full day.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 20 June 2022
  • In the United States, T-Mobile is the farthest along in rolling out its standalone network.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • They have also been found in the blood of over 98% of Americans tested and in the farthest reaches of the Earth.
    — Kathryn Rodgers, The Conversation, 4 May 2022

farthest

2 of 2 adverb
  • He chose the seat farthest from the door.
  • We had a contest to see who could hit a golf ball the farthest.
  • Of all the paintings, this one is the farthest removed from reality.
  • This plan goes farthest toward achieving our goal.
  • Faucets farthest from the street should be the ones left running.
    — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Open the bolt farthest away from the master cylinder a quarter-turn, then close it.
    — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Within each unit, space farthest from the windows is used for bathrooms and kitchens.
    — Larry Buchanan, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The affected leaves are the ones located farthest from the ends of the branches.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Today marks the exact point when the Northern hemisphere is tilted farthest away from the sun.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Everyone goes farthest with the support of family and friends.
    — Joe Hart, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Our $5 went farthest here, yielding a big bag of delicious candy and 65 cents change.
    — Erin Ben-Moche, chicagotribune.com, 1 Aug. 2017
  • An annular eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and Earth while farthest away from Earth.
    — Matthew Cappucci, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
  • One Amazon reviewer did note that a small pair of skis, when clamped farthest from the hinge, slid forward and backward slightly.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 4 June 2020
  • That marks the minute that the Northern Hemisphere is tilted farthest away from the sun and is no longer losing daylight.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • But he is positioned farthest away from us, and stands at a slight angle, his head tilted in what seems like reticence, not seduction.
    — Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Because the moon is only a couple of days past apogee (the part of its orbit that is farthest away from the earth), its shadow will seem smaller than usual.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2021
  • In contrast, one of the objectives that the world is farthest from meeting concerns gender equality.
    — The Economist, 5 June 2019
  • But Steuben’s is the group’s farthest reaching endeavor in terms of locations and audience.
    — Josie Sexton, The Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2019
  • One of the biggest and farthest reaching charities in America.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Wildfires and hurricanes raged through states that lagged farthest behind on the count, displacing residents and eating up crucial time.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The winter solstice is an astronomical event and happens when the North Pole is tilted farthest away from the sun.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The diameter of a supermoon is 7% greater than an average full moon, and 14% bigger than when the moon is farthest away.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The farthest naked eye Solar System object, Uranus, is 2 hours and 40 minutes in the past.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • By contrast, in a regular vise, all of the clamping force is concentrated on the farthest-extending point(s) on either side of the object.
    — New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Chapman is the only player from California and is the athlete who comes from farthest away — nearly 2,200 miles.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Although Elsevier has reached open-access agreements with other research institutions, this is the largest and farthest-reaching of its kind.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • In Jackson, some locals say that the bad blood over the criminal justice bill will remain even if the farthest-reaching proposals don’t make it through the legislative process in the coming weeks.
    — Casey Tolan, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The 20 percent of people farthest to the conservative end of the spectrum accounted for almost two-thirds of the untrustworthy articles read.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Now, similar to his All-Pro rookie year, James is being deployed throughout the defense, from the line of scrimmage to the player positioned farthest from the ball.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Most of those efforts focused on students with disabilities and students learning English, who were falling farthest behind according to the school’s data, Jespersen said.
    — Rachel Alexander, oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2020

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