ULTIMATELY in a Sentence

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1. Our ultimate aim is to realize communism.
2. The ultimate decision lies with the parents.
3. If this goes on it may ultimately mislead us.
4. His ultimate goal was to set up his own business.
5. The ultimate aim is to expand the network further.

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 Meanings and Examples of ULTIMATELY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ultimately
 ad.  as final consequence; at last; in the end
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
2  Connie felt that she herself didn't really, not really touch him; perhaps there was nothing to get at ultimately; just a negation of human contact.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  Yet he could live alone, in the wan satisfaction of being alone, and raise pheasants to be shot ultimately by fat men after breakfast.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
4  By dint of alternate threats, promises, and bribes, the lady in question was ultimately prevailed upon to undertake the commission.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  A second followed, then a third, a fourth, a fifth, and ultimately the whole barrow was peopled with burdened figures.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
6  In the minor valleys, between the hillocks which diversified the contour of the vale, the fresh young ferns were luxuriantly growing up, ultimately to reach a height of five or six feet.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
7  The doctor did not reply at once; ultimately he said, "She is sinking fast."
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
8  But people, unfamiliar with such speculations as those of the younger Darwin, forget that the planets must ultimately fall back one by one into the parent body.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
9  The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  After testing both smiles and frowns, and proving that neither mode of treatment possessed any calculable influence, Hester was ultimately compelled to stand aside and permit the child to be swayed by her own impulses.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
11  On Cook's return, man still argues point, but ultimately goes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
12  If this goes on it may ultimately mislead us.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  I find that, ultimately, there are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
14  They ultimately found her lying dead on the floor of her dressing-room.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
15  Still, from an artificial civilization have originated wants, vices, and false tastes, which occasionally become so powerful as to stifle within us all good feelings, and ultimately to lead us into guilt and wickedness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
16  Complete disarmament was the ultimate goal of the conference.
17  Of course the ultimate responsibility for the present conflict without doubt lies with the aggressor.
18  For the specter of world revolution still haunts world capitalism, and the Yankee bomb is its ultimate defense.
19  His ultimate goal was to set up his own business.
20  Caviar and oysters on ice are generally considered the ultimate luxury foods.
21  The ultimate sin was not infidelity, but public mention which led to scandal.
22  The ultimate aim is to expand the network further.
23  Our ultimate aim is to realize communism.
24  Managementmust take ultimate responsibility for the strike.
25  His defection to the other side was the ultimate betrayal.
26  The female nude is surely the ultimate test of artistic skill.
27  We could not trace the ultimate source of the rumours.
28  Among young people, this brand of designer clothing is the ultimate status symbol.
29  Running a marathon is seen by many as the ultimate test of endurance.
30  The ultimate decision lies with the parents.