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Example sentences for "safest"

Lexicographically close words:
safekeeping; safelie; safely; safer; safes; safetie; safeties; safety; safflower; saffron
  1. It would have betrayed the fact that I was no seaman, at the least, and that is why I had resolved upon silence as the safest course.

  2. An interview with you seemed to me quite necessary, and I considered this the safest disguise, and Mr. Follingsbee's company the surest protection.

  3. The inclosed came to Dick in one of Charles's franks; he said he should write to you himself with it, but I think it safest not to trust him.

  4. This seems to me about the safest spot I've seen.

  5. This is the safest place I've struck yet," exclaimed Dubois.

  6. The safest conclusion as to the weight of the hail-stones is, that they were enormous, and fell with a velocity to crush all animals to instant death.

  7. Noah therefore chose the safest way, even to stay in the ark, till God's word came.

  8. And indeed this is the safest way to judge of the meetness of persons by: for take away the confession of faith and holiness; and what can distinguish a Christian from a Turk?

  9. The day you bought the castle, I decided that it was the safest place for me to stay until the danger blows over, or until father can arrange to smuggle me out of this awful country.

  10. The safest way, I should say, is for neither of us to express an opinion so long as we are thrown into contact with each other.

  11. It occurred to me last night that the safest thing for you to do, Mr. Smart, is to--to get out yourself.

  12. If you must deal with such dangerous people, the safest way is to set one of them to find out the other.

  13. It is safest neither to promise to open the New Portfolio once more, nor yet to pledge myself to keep it closed hereafter.

  14. Then she was conveyed through the Park to the Horse Guards as the safest place; and was laid, wrapped up in blankets, on the table in the guardroom in the midst of the officers.

  15. Bretagne, where the heir of Lancaster resides, will be the safest place of refuge for its bravest followers.

  16. Philipson felt once more the grasp of the hands of the officials, to which he resigned himself as the safest course.

  17. Go down and load the two muskets, and give them to the safest men.

  18. We continued to scud under a double-reefed mainsail and foretopsail till dusk; but, as the sea ran high, the captain thought it safest to bring her to.

  19. The safest precaution will be always to formulate the supposed law on which we propose to base an argument.

  20. The safest position, then, for the nails is in the front half of the foot, but should this position not present sound horn they may be placed further back.

  21. Probably the safest method now will be to close the bladder wound at once by metallic stitches, and stitching the abdominal wound carefully with deeply entered wires, to leave the patient on his back.

  22. The cut directly upwards is also the safest for them.

  23. The simplest and safest operation is the following:-- The patient recumbent, and the lids held apart by a speculum, the eyeball should be steadied by the forceps of an assistant.

  24. He dared not force the engine until it was again at fullest, safest operating temperature.

  25. The safest course, Garry thought, was to go on climbing.

  26. The so-called friend introduced him to others, and the latter persuaded him that the safest plan would be to place his effects in the hands of some wealthy merchants who would make no inquiry as to how he came by them.

  27. It is, however, usually safest in the first place to concentrate the liquid, to add an acid, and deposit the lead on platinum, in the way to be shortly described.

  28. I am on the spot," Dominey replied, "and believe me I know what is safest and best.

  29. Magnificent, but safest in the long run," Seaman declared.

  30. It is always safest to make the other chap quickly run away.

  31. At this time the safest place was the extreme front.

  32. If it must be crossed, the safest way is to ride a horse that knows how to handle himself in a flood of this kind.

  33. We decided that the best and safest plan would be for three or four outfits to throw in together and all occupy the same camp.

  34. The safest thing to do is to stay on dry land until the flood has passed, and then sound the crossing.

  35. For a small vessel, the passage through the strait, from west to east, is not only easy, but strongly to be recommended as the best and safest route.

  36. In such questions the British people will, I am confident, find his principles the safest of guides.

  37. Wherefore she elected to keep these papers in a safe place rather than destroy them, and the safest place she could think of was Pepita's jewel-case, now her own.

  38. Ay, father; it's the safest cage we have.

  39. Indeed, it was the safest refuge the Count could have, for in their present mood the populace would have torn down any less well defended prison to get at him.

  40. In judging of the probabilities of his methods of action, it is the safest course to be guided by what we can see takes place at every new birth of a human infant.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "safest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.