SUPREME in a Sentence

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The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as result and culminating point Enjolras' supreme melancholy.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUPREME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
supreme
 a.  most outstanding; highest; superior
Classic Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  The supreme moment was approaching.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter by change of place.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
3  The supreme moment had arrived.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR
4  It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—A
5  The supreme smile is God's alone.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
6  The moment had arrived for the incorruptible and supreme equity to alter its plan.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
7  An emanation from the divine whirlwind leaps forth and comes sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE
8  This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
9  The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme abnegation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME
10  Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
11  Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCE...
12  The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as result and culminating point Enjolras' supreme melancholy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
13  At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his tongue, a sign of supreme disdain.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE
14  There are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful smoke.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
15  Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of agony, would have thought of the wounded.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
Example Sentence:
1  After a year without defeat, the team now reigns supreme as the finest in the country.
2  The present constitution gives supreme authority to the presidency.
3  The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
4  The Pope is the supreme leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
5  Soldiers who die for their country have made the supreme sacrifice.
6  It is an event in which she reigns supreme.
7  The bicycle reigned supreme as Britain's most popular mode of transport.
8  The vice-president must now take on the mantle of supreme power.
9  Last Sunday the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei asked young people to remain calm in the run up to July the 9th.
10  The earmarks of such a religion are: faith in a supreme deity, hope of eternal survival, and love, especially of one's fellows.
11  The defeated England coach, Bobby Robson, described it as a miracle, which following 'the Hand-of-God' goal seems supremely apt.