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Recent Examples of innermostThe government of the Indian Ocean island nation confirmed the bodies were spotted in the innermost part of the cave by three Finnish diving experts, supported by the Maldives police and the military.—Mohamed Sharuhaan, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026 Officials said Finnish cave-diving specialists found the bodies in the innermost section of the cave system in Vaavu Atoll, where the divers disappeared Thursday while exploring at a depth of about 160 feet.—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026 The innermost region of any solar system, closest to the parent star, will be extremely hot and subject to large amounts of radiation.—Big Think, 30 Apr. 2026 With a paring knife, slice away the light, soft innermost leaves and the purple center.—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for innermost
Except, unfortunately, the poet’s inmost workings: even in this nearly comprehensive version of his life, Tennyson remains an elusive figure, his own depths signalled but unsounded.
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Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
In that long process of observation and recordkeeping, something else happened too: Eclipses helped compel humans to both develop and reveal our inmost capacity for a new and precise kind of reasoning that could be applied to the world.
The graffiti on their inner walls, where unknown others have marked their presence, suggests that these tunnels have occupied a number of locations across Berlin.
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Erika Landström,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Everything—the light, the salt, the slowness—conspires to shift your inner tempo.