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Example sentences for "strictest"

Lexicographically close words:
stricken; strickt; strict; stricte; stricter; strictly; strictness; stricture; strictures; stride
  1. He felt, however, more sure of himself, since he had bound himself by the strictest obligations of honor.

  2. He organized a chosen group of men from the elite of his companions, and formed with them a secret association, of which the object was to fix and maintain among its members the principles and points of honor in their strictest form.

  3. The old man reared his boy--or endeavored to do so--according to the strictest requisitions of the moral law.

  4. Left, then, upon our own responsibilities at so tender a period of our lives, it behooved us to conduct ourselves with the strictest of propriety, and I am most happy to say that we came triumphantly through the ordeal.

  5. The length of the waves, both of sound and light, and the number of shocks which they respectively impart to the ear and eye, have been the subjects of the strictest measurement.

  6. They recognise no law but the will of their chief, to whom they maintain strictest fealty.

  7. The Kershaw, which was only completed at South Farnborough two months ago, is now being tried in strictest secrecy.

  8. My word "fountain" would be correct; it would speak the strict truth; and it would convey the strict truth to the handful of Syrians, and the strictest misinformation to the North American millions.

  9. The describers of the Taj have used the word gem in its strictest sense--its scientific sense.

  10. All these galleries underwent the strictest investigation by surveyors appointed for the purpose; so that all possible precautions to prevent accidents were adopted.

  11. Preserved in Christ Jesus, and called--selected from his associates in sin, he was taken into this school, and underwent the strictest religious education.

  12. In the Southern States, the existence of slavery produces quite a different state of society, from that of the North; half of the population there consists of mere labourers in the strictest sense, that is of slaves.

  13. At the same time the Mahdi issued the strictest orders against luxurious living, and insisted that no gold and silver ornaments should be worn.

  14. But though its expression does not always possess the strictest truth, nevertheless it still appears natural, every thing has free motion; nothing is laboriously constrained or far- fetched, however striking it may sometimes appear.

  15. The strictest military discipline was maintained by General Louis Hebert in every particular, and one day’s duty was very much like the duties of every other day, with a variation for Sunday.

  16. I threw myself into a chair and told him all that had occurred--of course, under strictest secrecy.

  17. If we meet again it must be in the strictest secrecy.

  18. That in all their dealings with the red men, they had ever been governed by the strictest rules of right and justice.

  19. The Gospel of Christ is one continued lesson of the strictest morality, justice, benevolence, and universal charity.

  20. The dog, for instance, guards property with strictest vigilance, which has been entrusted to his charge; all his energies seem roused at night, as though aware that that is the time when depredations are committed.

  21. He could not find his boot-jack in the place where it usually lay, nor could he find it anywhere in the room after the strictest search.

  22. I shall never be ashamed of the strictest regard to decency, to reputation, and to that honour in which the dearest of all human creatures hath his share.

  23. The strictest silence, and the exclusive use of cutlasses were enjoined; so that, as the oars were muffled, and the night dark, the enemy had not the least suspicion of the impending attack.

  24. Those big grenadiers were well paid, although the strictest economy was applied to other things.

  25. Wehlen had received the strictest orders to watch her carefully, a responsibility which in those days might cost him his own life.

  26. There was one Morrice, a gentleman of Devonshire, of a sedentary, studious disposition, nearly related to Monk, and one who had always maintained the strictest intimacy with him.

  27. We shall have to practice the strictest economy," you imprudently add.

  28. If I am happy with my little Caroline, it is due to the strictest observance of that salutary principle so strongly insisted upon in the Physiology of Marriage.

  29. But the strictest taboo is on the names of parents-in-law.

  30. Some Indian tribes of North America, "through a strong principle of religion, abstain in the strictest manner from eating the blood of any animal, as it contains the life and spirit of the beast.

  31. The chiefs act as their own cooks and eat in the strictest privacy.


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