EARLIEST in a Sentence

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43 example sentences for EARLIEST, such as:

1. The earliest originator was Dr.
2. That is among my very earliest impressions.
3. Beiyang Navy is the earliest naval force of China.
4. The earliest possible date I can make it is the third.
5. Waking up at earliest dawn, Levin tried to wake his companions.

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 Meanings and Examples of EARLIEST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
earliest
 a.  (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early
 ad.  with the least delay
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  From my earliest remembrance I had been as I then was in height and proportion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
3  You were attached to each other from your earliest infancy; you studied together, and appeared, in dispositions and tastes, entirely suited to one another.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
4  It stood nearly beneath the eaves of Boston's earliest church, and appeared to be a fixture there.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
5  From the earliest epoch of her conscious life, she had entered upon this as her appointed mission.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
6  Our ages were nearly the same, and from our earliest years we were playfellows and friends.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
7  Says you, "Joseph, I have this day seen my earliest benefactor and the founder of my fortun's."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
8  Reward of ingratitoode to his earliest benefactor, and founder of fortun's.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
9  That is among my very earliest impressions.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
10  From my earliest infancy she seems to have been always employed in that class of needlework, and never by any chance in any other.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
11  I cannot so completely penetrate the mystery of my own heart, as to know when I began to think that I might have set its earliest and brightest hopes on Agnes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
12  The very years she spoke of, were realities now, for my correction; and would have been, one day, a little later perhaps, though we had parted in our earliest folly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
13  Waking up at earliest dawn, Levin tried to wake his companions.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 12
14  Her nerves must be shredded if the noise of the well windlass, bound up in her earliest memories, could frighten her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  He came out a first lieutenant of infantry, and was one of the earliest sent abroad.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  Six days' public notice must be given when announcing the meeting schedules, meaning the earliest the board can next convene is July 24.
2  Beiyang Navy is the earliest naval force of China.
3  The earliest Roman coinage followed that of the Greek colonies in Southern Italy.
4  The earliest originator was Dr.
5  The earliest possible date I can make it is the third.
6  China's earliest pawn shops were run by Buddhist monasteries; in recent decades monks are keen to attract visitors, paving roads to their temples and opening shops hawking spiritual tat.