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  • It did not dive, but the nose went down slightly and the down-angle increased the speed, and he knew that at this angle, this slight angle down, he would ultimately fly into the trees.   (source)
    ultimately = finally; or in the end
  • The missing Environmental Impact Statement made the front page of the Gazette and ultimately proved to be the fatal blow to the pancake-house project.   (source)
    ultimately = in the end
  • But the ultimate wisdom of Sinkfield's maneuver is open to question.   (source)
    ultimate = fundamental (final evaluation)
  • It was the ultimate question for all seventeen-year-olds that year, and it drove Brinker's insinuations from every mind but mine.   (source)
    ultimate = most important or fundamental
  • She was the ultimate judge of morality and conduct.   (source)
    ultimate = final or best
  • Ultimately, people shape their own characters.   (source)
    ultimately = in the end
  • Not destroying the palace—and the gates, really they're still part of the problem—will ultimately be even worse.†   (source)
    ultimately = finally; or in the end
  • Ultimately, they both felt led to teach their children at home, which at first proved to be a struggle for Mom.†   (source)
  • Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible.   (source)
    ultimately = most basically (fundamentally)
  • The primal and the ultimate need.   (source)
    ultimate = most basic or fundamental
  • It occurred to me that he had been very slowly bending toward her all evening to attain this proximity, and even while I watched I saw him stoop one ultimate degree and kiss at her cheek.   (source)
    ultimate = final
  • Aech grinned and gave me a double high five, then added, "And if the contest hadn't been canceled, the winners of the first four rounds would have competed for the grand prize, the Sword of Ultimate Sorcery."†   (source)
  • I was cut off from all the people that I loved, everything I knew, living in this alien catacomb and forced to do nothing of importance but teach student after student, each one so hopeful, each one, ultimately, a weakling, a failure.†   (source)
  • It's like Jesus, who died for all of our sins," said Mrs. Hillcoate, who was a Baptist, and considered herself the ultimate authority.†   (source)
  • That was the cost, and only Trudy knew it, and even she didn't know what it meant or would ultimately come to mean.†   (source)
  • I focus only on the mystery, and embrace the belief that solving it is the ultimate Good, that declarative sentences are inherently better than interrogative ones, and in finding the answer despite my madness, I simultaneously find a way to live with the madness.†   (source)
  • To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.†   (source)
  • If Trisolaran civilization ultimately possesses that world, we can also create such lives for ourselves.†   (source)
  • Yes, a bottle of wine was the ultimate distillation of time and place; a poetic expression of individuality itself.†   (source)
  • Income tax refunds were the ultimate backstops.†   (source)
  • Whether I fast or not, observe the Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday, in my heart I believe we're ultimately praying to the same God.†   (source)
  • That is why I am able, ultimately, to see the loss of my daughter not so much as a defeat, as a victory.†   (source)
  • What is the point in providing food and shelter for an animal that just soils your furniture, makes your home smell bad, and ultimately dies?†   (source)
  • There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless.†   (source)
  • We ended up taking the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and we ultimately won a favorable ruling.†   (source)
  • Back in the car, ultimately.†   (source)
  • Yes, the ratios of line segments in a pentacle all equal PHI, making this symbol the ultimate expression of the Divine Proportion.†   (source)
  • He didn't know what the ultimate picture would be, but his next words almost felt like they were coming from someone else.†   (source)
  • As she whipped around tight turns and down steep descents, the world whirling around her, Tally felt like something caught in the wind, not knowing which direction the journey would ultimately take her.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, what this case is about is whether you believe people who are admitted participants in this crime and who are saving their own hides.†   (source)
  • If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, it's the airlock that inflates it.†   (source)
  • He was playing for keeps with a pro, and he turned out to be the ultimate loser.†   (source)
  • This banishment was the ultimate hurt—worse than his father's fists and belt, worse than his mother's never caring.†   (source)
  • Ishmael was all right, but Ahab he could not respect and this ultimately undermined the book for him.†   (source)
  • Mai is the ultimate pragmatist.†   (source)
  • And that is a move toward the ultimate transparency that we've all sought from our elected leaders since the birth of representative democracy.†   (source)
  • He went on to say he wanted to become a male model, his ultimate ambition was to be on the cover of GQ.†   (source)
  • And, in case the doofy-looking dog sweater and giant funnel on his head didn't tip you off, Spitsy is the ultimate dog nerd.†   (source)
  • To my father, this was the ultimate expression of the right order of things, so when Ty started visiting us the year after that, my father was perfectly happy to see him.†   (source)
  • Norman has kind of thick glasses, and I bet he couldn't actually hit anything, even with a machine gun, which even a lunatic like Norman is allowed to buy in this country thanks to our totally unrestrictive gun laws, which Michael Moscovitz says in his webzine will ultimately result in the demise of democracy as we know it.†   (source)
  • My dad was the ultimate surfer nut.†   (source)
  • The only person who had a right to ask Alex to recuse herself was Josie, but Alex knew that ultimately her daughter would understand.†   (source)
  • How self-important it seemed: to be making "the ultimate judgment."†   (source)
  • Forgiveness implies belief in an ultimate triumph.†   (source)
  • It was clear Cain and Celaena would ultimately face each other, and until then ...well, the other Champions weren't worth his time.†   (source)
  • I didn't enroll to make friends or impress anyone, so as long as my unwarranted reputation doesn't interfere with my ultimate goal, I'll get along just fine.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, of course, there is only one thing to be done if we are to save him from Lord Voldemort's wrath.†   (source)
  • Miss Crowe and I had a brief discussion of the matter (she denied the cheating, I might add), and ultimately she was promoted.†   (source)
  • I knew that to be in the possession of food was the ultimate crime.†   (source)
  • It was like the ultimate achievement for her to attract the lord of the sky, and she couldn't accept it when he left.†   (source)
  • French fries-ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.†   (source)
  • Nominally, it would pass to Mrs. Tallis, but ultimately the success of the evening would be in Cecilia's care.†   (source)
  • "Well, well, well," Dad said, leaning down into the car, "I see you three have the ultimate in taste.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, our omnivore's dilemma is rooted in our nature as human beings — but we've made our choices much harder than they used to be.†   (source)
  • The horse, which seemed to be obeying higher orders too, kept galloping as if it already knew their ultimate destination, even though Juan had thrown the reins aside and was passionately kissing and embracing Gertrudis.†   (source)
  • troy ultimately is the stronger, and takes the bat from cory and stands over him ready to swing.†   (source)
  • In his mind he held a big bang image of the ultimate holiday, when he would be transported to toyland.†   (source)
  • Even if your troops fail in the initial assault, like they did at Wright-Patterson, you succeed in your ultimate goal of blowing society apart.†   (source)
  • Most of the others secretly believe that the ultimate decision-making process is handled by a computer.†   (source)
  • He already knew what the ultimate goal was, now he could figure out how to achieve it.†   (source)
  • I've read they're the ultimate.†   (source)
  • Always, ultimately, she eluded me: I'd always just missed her call, or misplaced her phone number; or run up breathless and gasping to the place where she was supposed to be, only to find her gone.†   (source)
  • She picked both blacks and whites and children from both wealthy homes and poor homes, zeroing in, ultimately, on twelve families.†   (source)
  • Local news reporter Julian Ramos Hernandez says that eight police officers were ultimately fired over the incident.†   (source)
  • And, ultimately, the word that helped her escape.†   (source)
  • I felt like the ultimate cheat and coward, and—the catch-22—I craved Andie to make me feel better.†   (source)
  • Ultimately it was her downfall, but it was one of her greatest gifts nevertheless...She always helped the poor and the less fortunate, no matter what her situation.†   (source)
  • Star-bright branches of energy shot out of her fingers, forking and attaching themselves to card soldiers and Glass Eyes until every single one of them was caught on an end while the other ends were, ultimately, still attached to Alyss' fingers.†   (source)
  • Close to forty years later, I continue to do the vital work of helping create a healthy earth and a healthy society worthy of our gifts, our needs and our dreams (which is the ultimate struggle, the one fight really worth fighting).†   (source)
  • You see pain and death as ultimate evils and God as the ultimate betrayer, or perhaps, at best, as fundamentally untrustworthy.†   (source)
  • And someone who would risk everything and keep the secret just for the ultimate in cyberpuke pranks.†   (source)
  • Jenny became a convert to the natural cleaning powers of vinegar, which was up to even the ultimate challenge of dissolving Marley's dried saliva off the walls.†   (source)
  • But ultimately, there was no sense in thinking that way.†   (source)
  • No one could tell me whether he would be my ultimate destiny, but I had always sensed the en between us.†   (source)
  • The pessimists thought otherwise: they believed the war would last for some time yet, but at least there could no longer be the slightest doubt of its ultimate outcome.†   (source)
  • During that terrifying thirty-one-year regime, any hint of disagreement ultimately resulted in death for the dissenter and often for members of his or her family.†   (source)
  • I was what Mommy called a "Little Kid," one of five young'uns, microscopic dots on the power grid of the household, thus fit to be tied, tortured, tickled, tormented, ignored, and commanded to suffer all sorts of indignities at the hands of the "Big Kids," who didn't have to go to bed early, didn't believe in the tooth fairy, and were appointed denizens of power by Mommy, who of course wielded ultimate power.†   (source)
  • Kirk, I mean, Shatner, was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood.†   (source)
  • Faithlessness, selfishness, cruelty—those things are wrong, and ultimately those things kill them.†   (source)
  • It had forced Perry and him to fake their own deaths and flee Paris and ultimately to spend the next half millennium in hiding.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, it will be your burden to bear.†   (source)
  • Prendergast lectured Cooling on the fact that Jesus was the ultimate legal authority, then gave him the good news.†   (source)
  • I would beg him to remember that death and ultimate issues could come for any of us at any age—especially these days—but he would reply charmingly that he was too fine a musician to die young.†   (source)
  • It held the ultimate high place in Danny's room, resting on a large plastic plate on the table by his bed.†   (source)
  • I look back on my Little Rock integration experience as ultimately a positive force that shaped the course of my life.†   (source)
  • It's five and a half days of continuous beat-down designed to see if you have the endurance and the will to become the ultimate warrior.†   (source)
  • In the theater one built up an illusion on stage—to expose ultimately that the stage play was just an illusion.†   (source)
  • The judges wrote, "A patient must have the ultimate power to control what becomes of his or her tissues.†   (source)
  • It is again and again a celebration of that experience; because for vampires that is the ultimate experience.†   (source)
  • Murder, the ultimate crime of passion.†   (source)
  • Every day after school he hammered and nailed and pounded on it, making it the "ultimate racing machine."†   (source)
  • Lemming then handed him the ultimate prize: the form to play in the U.S. Army high school all-star football game.†   (source)
  • Mancuso had ultimately produced Jones with his personal map to show the October's estimated course off Iceland.†   (source)
  • But it is the human element-the real world-that ultimately does him in, as is seen in the last line.†   (source)
  • I felt a sense of ultimate satisfaction, of perfect harmony between artistic and technical knowledge.†   (source)
  • That was the ultimate sign, you see, that they had lost control over their own bodies, that they were about to die.†   (source)
  • None of this, however, prevented him from feeling well disposed toward him or recognizing the strength of his convictions, his natural gaiety, his capacity for tenderness, and the generosity that made him willing to give his life for ideals that Jaime shared but lacked the courage to take to their ultimate conclusion.†   (source)
  • I guess you need a full staff to march men into the ultimate physical tests of the navy's warrior elite.†   (source)
  • Mehlinger ultimately had to separate his pork section from the rest of the meats to avoid offending Muslim customers.†   (source)
  • I could see their minds working away, and they would ultimately reason, This guy must be incredibly good to be in this position.†   (source)
  • Yes, Nancy and Phillip were ultimately to blame, no question, but what made my heart soar was to hear that someone didn't pass the buck like Phillip always did.†   (source)
  • Some kids even go through the ultimate abandonment—they end up in foster care their entire childhoods, bouncing from one family to another until they finally just age out of the system.†   (source)
  • The fact that the parrot could maintain his privileges after that historic act of defiance was the ultimate proof of his sacred rights.†   (source)
  • You must understand that when anybody, bruja or curandera, priest or sinner, tampers with the fate of a man that sometimes a chain of events is set into motion over which no one will have ultimate control.†   (source)
  • Ultimately predictable, but still unusual enough to want to watch.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Livingston's house is not extravagantly furnished, but it's clear that she's come a long way from being a poor shirtwaist girl who thought a single red rose was the ultimate in luxury.†   (source)
  • It came to Jessica that the banker had said: "I, too, control that ultimate source of power on Arrakis—water."†   (source)
  • She knew her limits, but she wasn't the type to get into a conflict over things that were ultimately not that important.†   (source)
  • Maybe he could find a card on Dennis Heimline, a card that might say what had ultimately happened to him.†   (source)
  • To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and, ultimately, yourselves.†   (source)
  • Then she'd lassoed Fitzy and Mike, so ultimately a personnel change would've been her call.†   (source)
  • Though we must be careful not to attempt to deny the responsibility which ultimately lies with ourselves, it has to be said that certain employers have done much to encourage these sorts of trends.†   (source)
  • A way of gaining the ultimate upper hand.†   (source)
  • The boys ran as tandem ponies, knowing that someday one would touch base first, and the other second or not at all, but now this first minute of the new morning was not the minute or the day or morning of ultimate loss.†   (source)
  • Dad's the ultimate guidebook nerd," Grace yelled from the back.†   (source)
  • I coasted along a byway, memory, glimpses of truth speed bumps within childish belief, almost ultimate almost reliable almost total insanity.†   (source)
  • A character on the McDonald's Web site told children that Ronald McDonald was "the ultimate authority in everything."†   (source)
  • Ultimately, the building was reduced and all of the terrorists in it were destroyed by the assault force.†   (source)
  • Yet, in precisely the way that great music depends, ultimately, on great silence, this masculinity was defined, and made powerful, by something which was not masculine.†   (source)
  • It has already cost at least ten million lives, with the likelihood that the ultimate number of human casualties will vastly exceed the deaths in the Second World War.†   (source)
  • Ultimately Aisha even led an armed rebellion against a longtime adversary, Ali, after he became caliph.†   (source)
  • So ultimately Ghosh gave the textbook and bookmark to Shiva, and the letter to me, but hidden from me.†   (source)
  • She ultimately gave in to me.†   (source)
  • There was shoving and jostling as if this were the ultimate haven, the gateway to life.†   (source)
  • She combed her fingers confidently through the thick sandy hair that only needed slight tinting at the roots and mentally gave herself another fifteen years before she had to worry about this ultimate fate.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, at five minutes past three that afternoon, Smith admitted the falsity of the Fort Scott tale.†   (source)
  • Jason, I want to congratulate you for making it to the last step of the ultimate gift I planned for you.†   (source)
  • HE WAS RINGING down the curtain on an orangutan when the business of the King's health made its ultimate intrusion.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, Yale had to bend to accommodate new ways of thinking and learning from a more diverse student body.†   (source)
  • And now they have come here, to the heart of the Clave, to spy on our plans and reveal them to Valentine as they are made, so that he can defeat us and ultimately bend all Nephilim to his will.†   (source)
  • He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.†   (source)
  • It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.†   (source)
  • And having thus paid his ultimate compliment to Johnnie, Himes relapsed into intermittent slumber as Shade moved away down the squalid, dusty street under the fierce July sun.†   (source)
  • Later, of course, I'd read love stories to track down the horny parts and they made me wonder how it would be to touch a girl and if being horny was part of being in love, although it seemed to me you needed ultimate respect toward the girl you loved.†   (source)
  • The fact that the patriarch owned a sedan chair was taken as the ultimate measure of just how greatly the family had prospered.†   (source)
  • "The King of the Gods is the ultimate limitation," he keens, "and His existence is the ultimate irrationality.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, ida and the renowned organization Doctors Without Borders would took on the task of finding generic manufacturers of second-line drugs.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, when Snyder was pressed on his figure of 3 million homeless, he admitted that it was a fabrication.†   (source)
  • Milo, of course, had been the big feather in his cap, although having his group bombed by Milo's planes had probably been a terrible black eye for him, even though Milo had ultimately stilled all protest by disclosing the huge net profit the syndicate had realized on the deal with the enemy and convincing everyone that bombing his own men and planes had therefore really been a commendable and very lucrative blow on the side of private enterprise.†   (source)
  • I heard, once, that he had found a girl, but that she was mean inside and ultimately left him, and broke his heart.†   (source)
  • It's the only way we know of to test a Potential's courage and loyalty Unfortunately, it's the test most Potentials ultimately fail, but we've refused to compromise our standards.†   (source)
  • Moody explained that during World War II, while my dad was serving with the American forces in Abadan in the southern part of Iran, his father, working as a wartime physician, had treated numerous G.I."s for malaria, ultimately contracting the disease that killed him.†   (source)
  • Well, ultimately the king—†   (source)
  • The mess hall lunch was sometimes hot, sometimes not, the most popular meals being McDonald's-style hamburger patties or the ultimate, and rare, deep-fried chicken sandwich.†   (source)
  • Of those who do not respond, a similar percentage can be ultimately treated through a bone marrow transplant.†   (source)
  • So far, his firm had either spent or committed to spending just over $85,000 in litigation expenses, moneys the clients were ultimately responsible for.†   (source)
  • The inevitable enquiry had ultimately cleared Andersson of any wrongdoing, but only solidified his reputation.†   (source)
  • The Kennedy brothers have broken the man who once considered himself Washington, D.C.'s ultimate power broker.†   (source)
  • We can bide our time, we can keep our thoughts in our hearts, deploring maybe evils done by the way, but approving the high and ultimate purpose: Knowledge, Rule, Order; all the things that we have so far striven in vain to accomplish, hindered rather than helped by our weak or idle friends.†   (source)
  • We have removed the catalyst, true—but the world of men must still work to repair the damage that has been done, and then, ultimately, must choose peace.†   (source)
  • You oughta know that, having already given her the ultimate command a year ago.†   (source)
  • I yelled back at her, urging her to push, and push harder, desperate when she surrendered just short of the ultimate effort, and I felt the baby slip back again.†   (source)
  • Ultimately they would return to the much larger labs and production facilities of the Alps, of course, but only when they had what they needed firmly secured and the environment it came from thoroughly analyzed.†   (source)
  • But suicide as an expression of ultimate sacrifice for one's country was not a traditional samurai value.†   (source)
  • Death was the ultimate calmer, after all.†   (source)
  • He was planning an expedition to K2, mountaineering's ultimate test, and he needed an expedition medic.†   (source)
  • A general's ultimate nightmare.†   (source)
  • Part of the mystique is that skateboarding is the ultimate democratic sport, because poor people can do it in the streets.†   (source)
  • Despite my curiosity, despite my grandfather, despite the debts we owed Miss Peregrine, ultimately I was here—now—for one reason alone: because from the day I met Emma I'd known I wanted to be part of any world she belonged to.†   (source)
  • My grandmother, catching somehow the ultimate terror that the bomb promised, turned from adultery to Armageddon.†   (source)
  • So the final feeling is hostile, and I think that's ultimately what's involved with this otherwise unexplainable attitude of John and Sylvia.†   (source)
  • He led her out into the hallway, guiding her firmly toward the room that was now his ultimate proof.†   (source)
  • And even if we prove our case, it is Andrew T. Judson who ultimately will decide the fate of our African friends.†   (source)
  • My request was ultimately granted, accompanied by a stern warning from Colonel Jacobs that serious consequences would result if I returned to my impudent ways.†   (source)
  • They'd drive as they needed to, working toward and around the definite destinations they'd ultimately agreed on.†   (source)
  • I continued to see the horror of Osa fighting for her life and ultimately losing to a shower of arrows.†   (source)
  • I was excited by the prospects, but my father was adamant about me finishing my studies at the Monterrey Institute of Technology where I ultimately earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's degree in business administration and finance.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, Chanda's wars are everybody's wars: Every young person stolen and recruited is our brother, our sister, our son, our daughter.†   (source)
  • In that maxim lies both our ultimate purpose and our most pressing danger.†   (source)
  • What she fears most is this: that her rape, her baby's death were absorbed quietly by the earth, that they are ultimately no more meaningful than falling leaves on an autumn day.†   (source)
  • "We have cut off their head," he said, "and we will ultimately defeat them ...Our strategy is working, and there is no greater evidence of that than justice finally being delivered to Osama bin Laden."†   (source)
  • It passed me by, for when I was young I was sure of the good of the world, its beauty, and its ultimate justice.†   (source)
  • It was the ultimate form of our admiration for each other, with full knowledge of the values by which we made our choice.†   (source)
  • I fear I shall always be searching, never attaining ultimate satisfaction, for I possess that blessing and curse—a doubting, questioning mind.†   (source)
  • Only she can guarantee the perpetuation of the family line, which, in turn, is the ultimate duty of every son.†   (source)
  • While Oscar ultimately graduated, Cristian did not.†   (source)
  • Rusty called the smell of the sea, the salty air "the ultimate cure for whatever ails you," but Miri didn't think it could wash away her sadness today, even if she jumped in fully dressed.†   (source)
  • Cold and drunk, and his legs were weak, but not so cold and weak and drunk that he would listen to the ultimate war story.†   (source)
  • If they had not brought down Tribulation which all but destroyed them; then they would have bred with the carelessness of animals until they had reduced themselves to poverty and misery, and ultimately to starvation and barbarism.†   (source)
  • This was the beginning of the process that would put all of his skill and experience to the ultimate trial.†   (source)
  • But the fact that I even wondered about it seemed like just the ultimate sin.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, if Mark kept them on the strand like this, they would be trapped between the northbound chopper and the southbound searchers.†   (source)
  • Today I was too busy making tiramisu, kicking myself for not going to the mall to buy a new dress, and ultimately trying to think of a brilliant plan to get out of this dinner.†   (source)
  • This was ultimately what they had sacrificed their lives for.†   (source)
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