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How to use superlative in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word superlative? Here are some examples.

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He was a superlative draughtsman and his work has appealed greatly to other outstanding draughtsmen, such as Hockney and Picasso.
This daunting, darkly astringent music was played in a superlative manner by cellist Marilyn De Olivera.
Nowadays, even the cheapest laser printers offer superlative image quality in both text and graphics.
His superlative show in both playoffs and World Series in 2002 finally forced the media to let up on him.
You get a superlative audio and video presentation, and an excellent collection of bonus material.
The green peppers make a fruity hot sauce, while the ripe ones make a superlative red sauce similar to Tabasco.
He was supposed to be recognized for his superlative skill with flight combat and drafted immediately into the test pilot corps.
None of those words is quite superlative enough to describe how mind-bendingly horrible these two episodes really are.
The Old Masters owed their designation not only to superlative technique but also to their ability to represent the right subject.
All kidding aside, here's another fine CD from a flutist who has given us superlative recordings of music from the Baroque and Classical eras.
They cut glass, they refract light into perfect hearts-and-arrows, and they have superlative fire and brilliance.
Befitting such a stellar cast, the performances were superlative throughout.
We were studying positive, comparative and superlative adjectives and, as usual, having a pretty hard time with it.
The comparative and superlative degrees in adjectives are shown in two ways.
Whether the adjective is a superlative or a comparative it requires more candidates than the two who have tied at the top.
The signs of extreme rarity of certain presumed comparative and superlative forms are puzzling.
The superlative may use the same root as the comparative, or may be further suppletive, but will not use the basic adjectival root.
And to say all this is not yet to comment on the superlative choreography and dancing.
Not a superlative film but a perfectly solid one and one that is going to be rolling out in limited release quite soon.
The 1950s recordings have been in limbo until recently, boasting neither modern sound nor superlative sentimental value.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Such a superlative was felt by all to be a masterpiece of language, and turned the laugh against the bagman.
These were the qualities which Renoir was to develop to so superlative a degree.
The comparative is declined weak, but the superlative is declined strong and weak.
He who has a superlative for everything, wants a measure for the great or small.
He fancied this was because of the sardonic pleasure its superlative phrases gave him, but the truth was it held him.
The statue gives us some idea of the superlative beauty of phryne.
Mrs. Jordan superlative in hoyden, and Jones well enough in Foppington.
And superlative morality is found, of course, only in the newspapers.
It does very well till you get across the water, where, as everything is obscure, it is certain to deal in the superlative.
Shall we not discriminate in our employment of the superlative?
It is not that they revealed a superlative degree of disorganization.
But to take the earner, is compound, superlative, perpetual theft.
The superlative Polar degree appeared to invigorate Mr. Barrett.
The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.
He is always in extremes, perpetually in the superlative degree.
With his father, the superlative degree returned infallibly.
This genius Marheyo possessed in a superlative degree, as he abundantly evinced by the use to which he put those sorely bruised and battered old shoes.
The Acelero Learning Head Start program has operated in New Brunswick for four years and has consistently demonstrated superlative gains in child achievement.
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