SUPERLATIVE in a Sentence

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1. We went to a superlative restaurant.
2. Their table was superlatively stupid.
3. Some superlative wines are made in this region.
4. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUPERLATIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
superlative
 n.  an exaggerated expression, usually of praise; the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
Classic Sentence:
1  Bolshevism, it seems to me,' said Charlie, 'is just a superlative hatred of the thing they call the bourgeois; and what the bourgeois is, isn't quite defined.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  Although Mr. Bounderby carried it off in these terms, holding the door open for the company to depart, there was a blustering sheepishness upon him, at once extremely crestfallen and superlatively absurd.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
3  But the housekeeper had served Sir Geoffrey for many years, and the dried-up, elderly, superlatively correct female you could hardly call her a parlour-maid, or even a woman.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  Their table was superlatively stupid.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
5  Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that, yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on his underlings to the attack.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
6  There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
Example Sentence:
1  Some superlative wines are made in this region.
2  We went to a superlative restaurant.