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Example sentences for "lowermost"

Lexicographically close words:
lowed; lower; lowercase; lowered; lowering; lowers; lowest; lowing; lowland; lowlander
  1. Surrendering his lowermost clutch, the one in the silken seat of the suit of his writhing prisoner, he fumbled beneath the tails of his overcoat for the disciplinary nippers that were in his righthand rear trousers pocket.

  2. Since Bob Slack's bachelor quarters were on the topmost floor Bob Slack's push button would be the next to the lowermost of the battery of buttons.

  3. This diversion enabled the fugitives to gain the fence without detection, wriggle under the lowermost barbed wire, and find a temporary respite on the unpatrolled area between the entanglement and the brink of the Zeppelin pit.

  4. This time the lowermost wire was set up taut, and Hamerton had the greatest difficulty in holding it up sufficiently for Detroit to crawl clear of the sharp barbs.

  5. He was now clinging with hands and feet to the under side of the aluminium beam, with his nose only a couple of inches from the lowermost flange of the T-section.

  6. With that he rose to his feet, grasped the lowermost of the barbed wires, and held it up as high as the tension would allow.

  7. The disconcerting discovery that the lowermost section of the ladder had been removed came as a sudden and nerve-racking shock.

  8. Four other small bows descend from the lowermost parts of the latter and unite with the basal ring.

  9. Four other large spines, nearly vertical at the four lowermost basal points of the subfrontal rings.

  10. On each girdle (at the lowermost edge of each joint) a single transverse row of circular pores.

  11. He pointed to the lowermost step of the flight; there, as before, were the stump of candle, the burnt matches, the traces of tallow upon the wood.

  12. Lanyard inserted four on top of the cylinder, moistening the lowermost slightly to make it stick, recorked the phial, and returned it to its compartment.

  13. The lowermost girder of the "L" was immediately overhead.

  14. The skin together with subcutaneous fascia is sutured on either side unless drainage is to be provided for on one side, and the lowermost part of that side is left unsutured.

  15. They had sufficient dexterity to leap from the ground up among the lowermost limbs, but had no power of retaining their position, or doing anything after they got there.

  16. All the time his large, round eyes, which had a greenish glare like those of a cat, were never removed from the face of the lad, and the guttural growl that came from the lowermost depths of his chest was like the muttering of distant thunder.

  17. The frolicsome wolves had varied their amusement by springing upward among the lowermost branches.

  18. He could reach it from his perch on the lowermost limb, but it was hardly safe to attempt it while his enemy was seated there upon his haunches, as if debating whether he should go up or not.

  19. But it was nearly the lowermost limb which he grasped with his desperate clutch, and hung with his arms dangling within reach of the wolves below.

  20. It crossed the moonlit landing—an unbroken sheet of light—and stepped, yet more slowly, from stair to stair of the four that composed the lowermost flight.

  21. One glance into her own room showed her that her girls were safe; she tore a blanket from the bed and was back so quickly that she overtook the burning figure on the lowermost stair, and wrapped her in the blanket.

  22. In the insane forest voices he heard the contented cacklings of fat hens scratching for provender beneath the gnarled limbs of ancient apple trees whose trunks all were so neatly whitewashed up to the lowermost boughs.

  23. We were told that at the last, when the guns had been silenced and dismounted and the walls had been pierced and the embrasures blown bodily away, the garrison, or what was left of it, fled to these lowermost shelters.

  24. Certainly, except when dealing out punishment, they did remarkably little damage, considering their numbers, along their line of march through this lowermost strip of Belgium.

  25. It started from the lowermost rollways on the river, drove rapidly through the more unobstructed reaches, and was early pocketed above Monrovia in the Company's distributing booms.

  26. When the lowermost log on the river side was teased and pried out, the upper tiers were apt to cascade down with a roar, a crash, and a splash.

  27. As far as the rear crew should overtake these divisions, either it would absorb them or the members of them would be thrown forward beyond the lowermost beat, to take charge of a new division down stream.

  28. Yet this river has sometimes, but rarely, been known to surmount this barrier and invade the lowermost streets of the city.

  29. The lowermost skeleton is almost entire, and in a good state of preservation, and is put up by means of wires, on the walls.

  30. The marimondas, having climbed the trunk, ran out upon the lowermost limbs, until they were directly above the palms.

  31. It was the lowermost limb of a large zamang-tree, that stood on the bank close to the edge of the water.

  32. Here was a race of people, just set free, grasping at the lowermost round of the ladder of education, and ambitious to mount higher every day.

  33. Waynsford indicated a perpendicular iron ladder, its lowermost end hidden in black mud, over which the rising tide was slowly advancing.

  34. White-crested waves were breaking right over the occupant of the breeches-buoy, for he was now nearly half-way to the shore and at the lowermost limit of the sagging rope.

  35. One of these the lowermost monkey caught and held fast.

  36. The lowermost links dropped lightly to the ground, while the higher ones leaped to the branches and came down by the trunk.

  37. Throwing himself down a vertical shaft, he flew toward a tiny projector-locker, in the lowermost part of one of the great star's points, the hexans in hot pursuit.

  38. In one of the lowermost heptagons, one bearing the full brunt of the hexan armament, Kromodeor reared upright as his projector controls went dead beneath his hands.

  39. This should be arranged in a stand like the coils of a radiator with an incline from the inlet end of the top pipe to the outlet end of the lowermost pipe.

  40. He had almost reached the lowermost limb when his grip slipped and he fell.

  41. Meantime the wolves circled close about the tree, looking up, and one big fellow even put his forefeet against the trunk and reared high till his head rested on the lowermost branch.

  42. The lowermost links now dropped off to the ground, while the higher ones leaped to the branches and came down by the trunk.

  43. The motion was slight at first, but gradually increased, the lowermost monkey striking his hands violently on the earth as he passed the tangent of the oscillating curve.

  44. Squeezing himself silently down the parasite--for he had come from above--the reptile slowly uncoiled two or three of the lowermost rings, and stretched his glistening neck horizontally over the hammock.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lowermost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    basal; bottom; lowest