How to Use innermost in a Sentence

innermost

1 of 2 adjective
  • She revealed her innermost feelings.
  • Maybe your own innermost thoughts, or just the sound of the wind rustling through the trees outside.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 18 Apr. 2020
  • The innermost circle is your best friends, the next circle close friends, etc.
    Amy Chillag, CNN, 4 Aug. 2019
  • If there’s anything anybody wants to skip, like innermost thoughts in places, just go ahead.
    Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2018
  • Under this sky, take a look under the hood and get in touch with your innermost feelings.
    Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 28 Oct. 2018
  • With a paring knife, slice away the light, soft innermost leaves and the purple center.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Pitchers do not need to ponder innermost thoughts behind the mound.
    Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The innermost circle is full with two electrons, and the middle circle is full with eight.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2019
  • This is the longest one of our teammate's innermost lashes have ever looked.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
  • Next, with the clean foundation brush used in steps one and two, blend the concealer over the innermost edges of the blush.
    Carly Cardellino, Cosmopolitan, 8 Aug. 2014
  • The innermost rim formed later, when a mountain at the crater’s center collapsed.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Now the innermost planet zips toward the sun again on the side of its orbit nearest to Earth.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The idea of sharing his innermost feelings with all those other people in the session didn’t faze him.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
  • The innermost planet is normally very hard to spot, since the tiny world usually gets lost in the glare of the sun.
    Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 29 Dec. 2016
  • States need to give inmates a fair chance to convey their innermost thoughts and feelings about the events that altered the course of their lives.
    Glenn Freezman, Time, 13 Feb. 2020
  • In any event, you’re being encouraged to take a step back from the monotony and tune into your innermost feelings.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The innermost planet can be found very low in the southeast during morning twilight.
    Arnold Pearlstein, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Aug. 2019
  • While the sentiments seem sincere, her reticence around them keep her innermost self at arm’s length.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The dot was Robert Moses, and the innermost circle was his family.
    The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
  • The film tells the story of a group of women that gather in the safe darkness of a smoke sauna to share their innermost thoughts and secrets.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Only the innermost hearts of a few academics truly know why that is — although the findings of my last piece might provide a clue.
    Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
  • On Monday morning, the innermost planet will appear to glide silently across the disk of the sun.
    National Geographic, 6 Nov. 2019
  • And, finally, there is the germ, the innermost part that ultimately grows into a new plant.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 6 July 2017
  • The innermost giant moon of Jupiter, Io is thought to be home to an underground ocean of magma.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Clinton and others in her innermost circle of advisers often speak of the election as if it had been stolen from them.
    Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 14 July 2017
  • The sidewalk on Fifth Street will be expanded through the removal of the innermost right turn lane.
    The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Ohtani, of course, guards tight the innermost workings of his mind in postgame scrums, and was mum on most talks of the future after Friday’s start.
    Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
  • Typically, the labyrinth, the innermost part of the ear, is encased in bone and contains a fluid which called an endolymph.
    USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The uniqueness of this innermost core is subtle and not as sharp as other layers, Pham admitted.
    Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Mars is five times brighter than Mercury, so the innermost planet is usually a bit more challenging to track down.
    Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 31 May 2019

innermost

2 of 2 noun
  • Same for the many drains and manhole covers on the innermost lane.
    Diana Budds, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The names of Marcus and Porter are among the very first in the innermost loop.
    Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Most teenagers would be mortified at their innermost thoughts spilling out in public.
    Diep Tran, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The innermost layer at the hair’s center is called the medulla.
    Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The innermost fence is topped with barbed wire, and ground-floor windows at all three buildings are boarded up.
    Steve Karnowski, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Both our public and our innermost lives depend upon it.
    Time, 12 May 2026
  • The innermost portion is moving too slow; its angle of attack is too large, and it is stalled.
    Popular Science, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The innermost circle is full with two electrons, and the middle circle is full with eight.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2019
  • Convention has fled to her innermost shrine there to blush unseen and waste her orisons on a futile prayer.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2021
  • This vibrant town of about 700 is tucked away in the innermost nook of its namesake fjord.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Spending time with those in your innermost circle should get you some amazing results.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • While the innermost fence around the Capitol has not been removed, the razor wire on top of it has.
    Andrew Solender, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2021
  • At tree planting, set the innermost ring 10 inches away from the central trunk.
    Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2018
  • Could a doctor, who knows the body of a patient so well, as a partner be unaware of their innermost feelings?
    John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Some discomfort with telling our innermost stories to a stranger is to be expected.
    Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The walls are three bricks thick with the innermost bricks (wythes) having an exciting history.
    David Buie, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Nothing quite matches the feeling of someone trusting you to tell their innermost story the right way.
    Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The siblings had sought shelter in Albert’s bedroom, the innermost room of the house and the place where they had been born.
    Washington Post, 11 July 2021
  • Some of those passages will bring Cassini even closer to the planet as well as the innermost D ring.
    Marcia Dunn, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Meditation is touted as a route to knowledge of your deepest self, your innermost thoughts.
    John Horgan, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Then, the innermost layer was made to shrink above 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Every two weeks, the innermost ring can be removed, until your cat can at long last poop or pee into a gaping, wide-open toilet bowl.
    Candice Wang, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2020
  • To arouse thought, to generate discussion, to express the artist’s innermost thoughts?
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 July 2021
  • Imagine the innermost layer as where the feelings are, and the outermost as the way those feelings are expressed.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The force of his blood ripped open the innermost layer of his aorta, spilling blood between the other muscular stratums.
    Sabrina Qiao, refinery29.com, 23 Nov. 2021
  • One of them, says Stroock, is whether plants ever allow the innermost layers of their leaves, called mesophyll, to dry out.
    Keith Gillogly, Wired, 2 July 2021
  • If your code’s innermost Matryoshka doll runs Log4j, good luck finding it.
    Brian Barrett, Wired, 16 Dec. 2021
  • In fact, the innermost ring, which is very tilted, contains enough dust to create 30 planets with the mass of Earth.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Sep. 2020
  • In the very last phase of the mission, Cassini dove through the gap between Saturn and the planet’s innermost ring.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
  • White House officials stressed that there’s no member of Biden’s innermost circle who deals with just one part of the party.
    Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2022

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