How to Use farthest in a Sentence

farthest

1 of 2 adjective

• Who parks in the farthest spot from the entrance to Kroger?
  — Gregg Doyel, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2021
• Aphelion is the date where Earth is farthest from the sun.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2022
• An angry man no one seems to know seethes at the end of the farthest pew.
  — Rima Parikh, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• Solstices mark the days when the sun’s arc through the sky is the farthest north or south from the equator.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
• The farthest the show travels into the future is around the year 2040.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
• On April 13, the moon will be at apogee, its farthest from the Earth for this orbit.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• The winner is the athlete who travels the farthest and who flies and lands with the best style.
  — Amy Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2022
• In the end, McCormick was not the choice of many of the party’s farthest-right voters.
  — Marc Levy, ajc, 8 Dec. 2022
• The premise of the race was to see whose robot could travel the farthest in 3 seconds.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 18 Mar. 2022
• The two play one round in the last few minutes by seeing who can throw it the farthest.
  — Hahna Yoon, Wired, 13 Oct. 2021
• The First Avenger came out in 2011 but is the farthest back in time, storywise.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 14 Oct. 2021
• At this World Cup, the farthest the Americans will go for a game is about 25 miles.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2022
• If not, the Corps takes that sediment to the farthest out-to-sea dumping grounds away from the bay.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2021
• The 1-1/16-mile San Felipe will be the farthest these two horses have run.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
• One minute later, those aboard will reach apogee — the flight point farthest from Earth.
  — Algernon D'ammassa, USA TODAY, 10 July 2021
• Block Island, 15 miles off the coast at its farthest point, has always been at the mercy of the four winds.
  — Elizabeth Royte, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
• The team who gets the most players the farthest in the shortest amount of time will win, and will also get a nice cash prize as a bonus.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• The past six Boddie winners or the state team that has advanced the farthest, have won the Class 7A title.
  — Dennis Victory, al, 20 Aug. 2021
• At that same moment, the South Pole is farthest from the sun, and parts of the Antarctic are in darkness for nearly the full day.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 20 June 2022
• They have also been found in the blood of over 98% of Americans tested and in the farthest reaches of the Earth.
  — Kathryn Rodgers, The Conversation, 4 May 2022
• Officials said this is the farthest west the insect has been found.
  — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 27 July 2021
• From the Amazon’s farthest source to its mouth in the Atlantic, water flows for 4,000 miles, almost as long as the Nile.
  — Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• Turn dough by 90 degrees so that open ends are closest and farthest from you.
  — Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
• The competition is simple: The frog that jumps the farthest wins.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• That means clouds tend to appear in the skies over its equator when the planet is farthest from the sun and at its coldest.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 June 2021
• A month before, he was awarded the flag in the Fourth of July parade for coming from the farthest away.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2021
• These supermoons make the moon appear 14% bigger in the sky than the smallest, farthest moon, the puny moon.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 23 Apr. 2021
• In Nordic combined, the athlete who jumps the farthest and impresses judges the most starts the cross-country portion of the event with a lead.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2022
• The past seven Boddie winners or the state team that has advanced the farthest, have won the Class 7A title.
  — Dennis Victory, al, 19 Aug. 2022
• The Belmont distance of 1½ miles is likely the farthest that any of these horses will ever run on the dirt.
  — John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022

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farthest

2 of 2 adverb

• He chose the seat farthest from the door.
• We had a contest to see who could hit a golf ball the farthest.
• Of all the paintings, this one is the farthest removed from reality.
• This plan goes farthest toward achieving our goal.
• Faucets farthest from the street should be the ones left running.
  — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
• Open the bolt farthest away from the master cylinder a quarter-turn, then close it.
  — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
• The affected leaves are the ones located farthest from the ends of the branches.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 27 Jan. 2021
• Within each unit, space farthest from the windows is used for bathrooms and kitchens.
  — Larry Buchanan, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• The farthest naked eye Solar System object, Uranus, is 2 hours and 40 minutes in the past.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• That marks the minute that the Northern Hemisphere is tilted farthest away from the sun and is no longer losing daylight.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2021
• Today marks the exact point when the Northern hemisphere is tilted farthest away from the sun.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2021
• An annular eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and Earth while farthest away from Earth.
  — Matthew Cappucci, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• Our $5 went farthest here, yielding a big bag of delicious candy and 65 cents change.
  — Erin Ben-Moche, chicagotribune.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• One Amazon reviewer did note that a small pair of skis, when clamped farthest from the hinge, slid forward and backward slightly.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 4 June 2020
• Because the moon is only a couple of days past apogee (the part of its orbit that is farthest away from the earth), its shadow will seem smaller than usual.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2021
• Here’s an idea: Whoever goes farthest into the tournament gets to keep the nickname.
  — Charles Curtis, For The Win, 13 Mar. 2018
• Alaska’s farthest-north town may also be its first to impose a tax on most sodas and other sweetened drinks.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2019
• The winter solstice is an astronomical event and happens when the North Pole is tilted farthest away from the sun.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Dec. 2021
• The diameter of a supermoon is 7% greater than an average full moon, and 14% bigger than when the moon is farthest away.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2022
• That phenomenon occurs when the Moon is farthest away from the Earth to completely cover the Sun, resulting in a ring of light around the darkened moon.
  — Popular Science, 7 Jan. 2021
• Everyone goes farthest with the support of family and friends.
  — Joe Hart, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2023
• The problem is that this part of Earth is farthest away from us, and is difficult to analyze as the seismic waves used to inspect it have to pass through the rest of the planet on their journey to the core and back.
  — Simon Redfern, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2015
• Hefner likes to wait for even the farthest-flung clippings to arrive in the mail so that there will be no loose ends or missing links, no late additions that force him to start a new set of photos on the left-hand page.
  — Chris Jones, Esquire, 28 Sep. 2017
• In contrast, one of the objectives that the world is farthest from meeting concerns gender equality.
  — The Economist, 5 June 2019
• Chapman is the only player from California and is the athlete who comes from farthest away — nearly 2,200 miles.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
• Now, similar to his All-Pro rookie year, James is being deployed throughout the defense, from the line of scrimmage to the player positioned farthest from the ball.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
• But Steuben’s is the group’s farthest reaching endeavor in terms of locations and audience.
  — Josie Sexton, The Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• But he is positioned farthest away from us, and stands at a slight angle, his head tilted in what seems like reticence, not seduction.
  — Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2021
• One of the biggest and farthest reaching charities in America.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 19 Dec. 2017
• In Jackson, some locals say that the bad blood over the criminal justice bill will remain even if the farthest-reaching proposals don’t make it through the legislative process in the coming weeks.
  — Casey Tolan, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023

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