How to Use innermost in a Sentence

innermost

1 of 2 adjective
  • She revealed her innermost feelings.
  • Maybe your own innermost thoughts, or just the sound of the wind rustling through the trees outside.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Ed Sheeran is ready to show his innermost self to the world.
    Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
  • The innermost planet, b, is the size of Earth and rocky like our planet and zips around the star every 10 Earth days.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Next, with the clean foundation brush used in steps one and two, blend the concealer over the innermost edges of the blush.
    Carly Cardellino, Cosmopolitan, 8 Aug. 2014
  • The innermost circle is your best friends, the next circle close friends, etc.
    Amy Chillag, CNN, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Now the innermost planet zips toward the sun again on the side of its orbit nearest to Earth.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The dot was Robert Moses, and the innermost circle was his family.
    The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
  • The film tells the story of a group of women that gather in the safe darkness of a smoke sauna to share their innermost thoughts and secrets.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The sidewalk on Fifth Street will be expanded through the removal of the innermost right turn lane.
    The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The innermost planet is normally very hard to spot, since the tiny world usually gets lost in the glare of the sun.
    Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 29 Dec. 2016
  • Under this sky, take a look under the hood and get in touch with your innermost feelings.
    Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 28 Oct. 2018
  • States need to give inmates a fair chance to convey their innermost thoughts and feelings about the events that altered the course of their lives.
    Glenn Freezman, Time, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Ohtani, of course, guards tight the innermost workings of his mind in postgame scrums, and was mum on most talks of the future after Friday’s start.
    Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
  • If there’s anything anybody wants to skip, like innermost thoughts in places, just go ahead.
    Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2018
  • The innermost giant moon of Jupiter, Io is thought to be home to an underground ocean of magma.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • On Monday morning, the innermost planet will appear to glide silently across the disk of the sun.
    National Geographic, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The innermost circle is full with two electrons, and the middle circle is full with eight.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2019
  • The riots were the responses to the innermost feelings of the crowd who were fed up with the harassment and assault by the police.
    Dean Eastmond, Teen Vogue, 29 June 2017
  • Crews have completed paving on the outer lanes of West Burnside, and will pave the two innermost lanes on Sunday.
    oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The idea of sharing his innermost feelings with all those other people in the session didn’t faze him.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
  • In this case, the innermost jet plumes have been measured at a velocity of 48 to 60 miles per second.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Pitchers do not need to ponder innermost thoughts behind the mound.
    Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Only the innermost hearts of a few academics truly know why that is — although the findings of my last piece might provide a clue.
    Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
  • That warmth heats the interior ocean, but not enough that the whole world turns into lava (which is what happened to the innermost moon of Jupiter, Io).
    Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
  • Typically, the labyrinth, the innermost part of the ear, is encased in bone and contains a fluid which called an endolymph.
    USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The transition from the outer part of the inner core to the innermost sphere appears to be gradual rather than a sharp boundary, Pham said.
    Reuters, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • This is the longest one of our teammate's innermost lashes have ever looked.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
  • Your innermost thoughts might not be so secret after all.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2017
  • Most stomach cancers form along the innermost layer of your stomach lining, the mucosa, which helps with digestion.
    John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 6 Feb. 2024
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innermost

2 of 2 noun
  • The names of Marcus and Porter are among the very first in the innermost loop.
    Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Same for the many drains and manhole covers on the innermost lane.
    Diana Budds, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2021
  • While the innermost fence around the Capitol has not been removed, the razor wire on top of it has.
    Andrew Solender, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2021
  • This vibrant town of about 700 is tucked away in the innermost nook of its namesake fjord.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The siblings had sought shelter in Albert’s bedroom, the innermost room of the house and the place where they had been born.
    Washington Post, 11 July 2021
  • The innermost layer at the hair’s center is called the medulla.
    Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 28 Nov. 2019
  • In the very last phase of the mission, Cassini dove through the gap between Saturn and the planet’s innermost ring.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Adding to the romance in the movie is the fact that Max now has Zoey's powers to hear people's innermost thoughts and desires through heart songs.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • In fact, the innermost ring, which is very tilted, contains enough dust to create 30 planets with the mass of Earth.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The 73-year-old native of Noto, Sicily, sat in the innermost of Irene’s three dining rooms.
    Brett Anderson, The Seattle Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The 73-year-old native of Noto, Sicily, sat in the innermost of Irene's three dining rooms.
    Todd A. Price, NOLA.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Some of those passages will bring Cassini even closer to the planet as well as the innermost D ring.
    Marcia Dunn, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
  • At tree planting, set the innermost ring 10 inches away from the central trunk.
    Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2018
  • The innermost fence is topped with barbed wire, and ground-floor windows at all three buildings are boarded up.
    Steve Karnowski, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The innermost circle is full with two electrons, and the middle circle is full with eight.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The innermost portion is moving too slow; its angle of attack is too large, and it is stalled.
    Popular Science, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Could a doctor, who knows the body of a patient so well, as a partner be unaware of their innermost feelings?
    John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Convention has fled to her innermost shrine there to blush unseen and waste her orisons on a futile prayer.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Then, the innermost layer was made to shrink above 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Imagine the innermost layer as where the feelings are, and the outermost as the way those feelings are expressed.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • One of them, says Stroock, is whether plants ever allow the innermost layers of their leaves, called mesophyll, to dry out.
    Keith Gillogly, Wired, 2 July 2021
  • White House officials stressed that there’s no member of Biden’s innermost circle who deals with just one part of the party.
    Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The smallest and innermost of Uranus and the the eighth largest moon in the Solar System, respectively, are something of a volcanic enigma.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Most teenagers would be mortified at their innermost thoughts spilling out in public.
    Diep Tran, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Nothing quite matches the feeling of someone trusting you to tell their innermost story the right way.
    Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The walls are three bricks thick with the innermost bricks (wythes) having an exciting history.
    David Buie, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The force of his blood ripped open the innermost layer of his aorta, spilling blood between the other muscular stratums.
    Sabrina Qiao, refinery29.com, 23 Nov. 2021
  • And every winter solstice, the Sun shines through the stone passage at Newgrange and lights up the innermost burial chamber.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 19 June 2020
  • But the tidal marsh is in its early stages, and waves started cutting deep benches into the slope of the marshlands near an innermost levee, Meisler said.
    Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Cisco sells switches and routers that reside in the innermost parts of a carrier’s network, but does not compete in the market for the cell-tower equipment that allows cell sites to connect with smartphones and other mobile devices.
    Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021

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