ULTIMATE in a Sentence

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For ULTIMATE, below is one of 84 sentences:
But the ultimate purpose of the bee is not exhausted by the first, the second, or any of the processes the human mind can discern.

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 Meanings and Examples of ULTIMATE
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ultimate
 a.  final; being the last or concluding; fundamental; elemental; extreme
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  And the alternative was to let Mattie go forth alone, with far less hope of ultimate provision.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  Confidence in ultimate victory never wavered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  Her need of money was too pressing, too desperate, for her to bother about his ultimate fate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  But to what ultimate generalizing purpose all these have written, the above cited extracts will show.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
5  The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet, united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to surrender at discretion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
6  In his life he had taken certain things for granted, never challenging his belief in ultimate success, and bothering little about means and roads.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
8  One should be a brute not to feel for the distress they are in; and from what I hear, poor Mr. Bertram has a bad chance of ultimate recovery.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  Its finder has carried it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who lost his Christmas dinner.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
10  And yet the problem should be capable of ultimate solution.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
11  Hitherto, except during my night's anguish at the loss of the Time Machine, I had felt a sustaining hope of ultimate escape, but that hope was staggered by these new discoveries.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
12  The ultimate and farcical upshot was that report came crowding upon report, and that such alleged doings were brought to light as the sun had never before beheld.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
13  Paris, the ultimate goal, is reached.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
14  But the ultimate purpose of the bee is not exhausted by the first, the second, or any of the processes the human mind can discern.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
15  The higher the human intellect rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes, that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
16  Managementmust take ultimate responsibility for the strike.
17  His defection to the other side was the ultimate betrayal.
18  The female nude is surely the ultimate test of artistic skill.
19  We could not trace the ultimate source of the rumours.
20  Among young people, this brand of designer clothing is the ultimate status symbol.
21  Running a marathon is seen by many as the ultimate test of endurance.
22  The ultimate decision lies with the parents.
23  A soon-to-be-married man's friends throw him the ultimate bachelor party.
24  The Internal Revenue Service is the ultimate bureaucracy; taxpayers wasted so much paper filling out IRS forms to comply with the Paper-work Reduction Act.
25  Mentally, I still possessed my soul, and with it the certainty of ultimate safety.
26  Before being taken to the execution chamber he acknowledged that he deserved punishment, but he said it was unfair that he was paying the ultimate price while his co-defendant, his girlfriend, who was charged as a juvenile, had the chance of a normal life.
27  He seemed to devour me with his flaming glance: physically, I felt, at the moment, powerless as stubble exposed to the draught and glow of a furnace: mentally, I still possessed my soul, and with it the certainty of ultimate safety.
28  To forgive is the ultimate grace and is in the best tradition of Jesus who taught to turn the other cheek.
29  The ultimate purpose of mercantile policy was to enhance national strength, provide self-sufficiency, and pay for military power.
30  Our ultimate goal is to be able to form a pool of stem-cell-like cells that would be able to repopulate the organ or tissue you're trying to repair.