Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmost
Adjective
  • This is not the first time the council has approved increasing ticket prices.
    Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
  • The first helicopter airline in Greece, hoper, has added four new destinations to its route map: Ios, Syros, Anafi and Porto Heli.
    Ramsey Qubein, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Adjective
  • Pele made it 3-1, then Zagallo put the game to bed with Brazil’s fourth after his initial corner was not cleared.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • In the initial preemptive attack, Israel hit the same three sites targeted by the U.S. Several top Iranian nuclear scientists and the top general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed in the operation, according to Iran.
    Luis Martinez, ABC News, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • Wang, meanwhile, was playing in her maiden WTA final.
    Leon Imber, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • Bezos himself even boarded Blue Origin's New Shepard for its maiden crewed voyage in July 2021, which came after the spacecraft flew on 15 flight tests beginning in 2012.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Giard grew up to become both a voracious reader (with a B.A. in English and American literature from Yale and an M.A. in comparative literature from Boston University) and a foremost chronicler of writers.
    Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
  • One of the Jet Propulsion Lab’s foremost scientists says the futuristic outpost is still hoping against hope that the president’s plan for NASA will be overturned by Congress.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • That being said, there’s no harm in watching the reboot trilogy first before moving on to the original series of films.
    Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 30 June 2025
  • Both sides offered slightly competing proposals to respond to the note, with the government’s proposal encouraging jurors to firmly stick to the original instructions on the law.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • The inaugural recipient will be honored at the Special Awards Presentation during the 26th Annual Latin Grammy Week in Las Vegas in November.
    Griselda Flores, Billboard, 28 June 2025
  • Among those receiving clemency are a pair of reality TV stars, a straw donor who gave $900,000 to Trump’s first inaugural committee and a Virginia sheriff sentenced to 10 years for deputizing several businessmen in exchange for cash payments.
    Jim Mustian, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
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“Headmost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmost. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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