southmost
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of southmost
before 900; Middle English southmest, Old English sūthmest; see south, -most
Example Sentences
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The intersection where Oxlaj Pérez was struck sits in a school zone, on the southmost corner of Thomas Jefferson Middle School, and is crossed frequently by pedestrians to reach the school and community center.
From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2022
Radio messages stated that they had paused at their fuel cache on Karagin Island off the Kamchatka Peninsula, then flown down to Petropavlovsk near the southmost tip of the peninsula.
From Time Magazine Archive
British Columbia or Alaska, thence to bear along the Aleutian Islands, the southmost tip of Kamchatka, Siberia and across the stepping stones of the Kurile Islands to Japan.
From Time Magazine Archive
I see Queen Annet of the southmost Unseelie Court, the Court of Moths, signal to her courtiers to leave the hall.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Sandy went to the door and knocked, and in a little while one answered at the southmost of the windows.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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