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Example sentences for "hindmost"

Lexicographically close words:
hindering; hindermost; hinders; hindleg; hindlegs; hindquarters; hindrance; hindrances; hindred; hindreth
  1. A hindmost player may also form in front of his own rank, making the second player in such rank hindmost or "third.

  2. On flew the horses, and on hacked Boris; while Peter, in the carriage, slashed at the hindmost wolves, and old Ivan prodded bravely and shouted loudly at those in front.

  3. The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon.

  4. A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck.

  5. The locomotive was reversed, and our kindling-wood, with most of the ties, carried forward, and the moment we began to move backward the hindmost car was uncoupled.

  6. We were about to start on our way, with the glad consciousness that our greatest obstacle was safely passed, when a red flag was noticed on the hindmost freight-car.

  7. At a later period oblique stripes were added to the longitudinal lines, the former (almost always) slanting across the seven hindmost segments from the back towards the feet in the direction of the caudal horn.

  8. Cyrtolophia, which has a broad white dorsal line bordered with pink, and two large pink ovals on the back of the four anterior segments, the hindmost and larger of these being bisected by the dorsal line.

  9. That was the hindmost word, and I hae good right to mind it.

  10. Suppose a herd of goats were all scampering as if the devil drove them, do but put a bit of eringo into the mouth of the hindmost nanny, and they will all stop stock still in the time you can tell three.

  11. They shall go hindmost with their standards.

  12. The hindmost supports himself against the one in front of him, and the front one supports himself against a wall (fig.

  13. Through and through shall they go, For the king's sake; But the one that is the hindmost Will meet with a great mistake.

  14. The hindmost lower pre-molar has an internal cusp; the lower incisors have upright spatulate crowns like those of true Apes.

  15. The difficulty should, whenever it is possible, be avoided by partially separating the two forms, as in b, where the center of the hindmost apple clears the outline of the other; thus making it possible to get a division without awkwardness.

  16. Lowering the surface of the hindmost apple would merely throw out the balance of masses without giving a satisfactory explanation of its position, while to cut a deep groove between the two would be an equally unsightly expedient.

  17. I could get no rest, for if I shut the tent the heat was unbearable, and if I opened it there was the crowd, row behind row, the hindmost pushing the foremost in, so that it was 8 P.

  18. At last the hindmost gave a sudden push, sending the foremost tumbling into the tent and over me, upsetting a large open packet of sulphate of zinc, just arrived from Julfa, which was on my lap.

  19. But all the hindmost of them fell by the sword and they pursued them as far as Gezeron, and even to the plains of Idumea, and of Azotus, and of Jamnia: and there fell of them to the number of three thousand men.

  20. How he met thee: and slew the hindmost of the army, who sat down, being weary, when thou wast spent with hunger and labour, and he feared not God.

  21. The hindmost appeared at the angle of the Temple, moved in turn after their fellows, climbed the steps and disappeared.

  22. The rank of the departing strangers did not encourage the city rabble to follow, and as the escort kept close to the head of the procession the hindmost camel was directly before Marsyas and the occupant of the howdah in his view.

  23. Baron Suire was now giving orders for the removal of the white flags on the foremost and hindmost carriages of the train; the shouts of the railway employes were ringing out in more and more imperious tones, "Take your seats!


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hindmost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aft; after; back; backward; closing; eventual; final; hind; hinder; hindmost; lag; last; latest; posterior; postern; rear; rearward; retrograde; tail; terminal; ultimate