How to use "best" in a sentence

For the last half hour, I've been thinking of my best chance of escape

The plastic pipe from the CamelBak seems best for that

I tell her how proud I am of her and send her my love and best wishes.

I have found the best way to sit and feel calmer in the warm air

He had his best clothes on, and in one hand he had a white hat.

'Nobody likes Dinah down here, but she's the best cat in the world

'But it was the best butter,' answered the March Hare.

He took it out and looked at it again.' It was the best butter, you know,' he repeated.

And we had a good year - the best year, Forrest! Good luck, boy!'

And suddenly I was in the final, playing with a Russian, Honest Ivan, the best player in the world

And one day I dressed in my best clothes and got the bus to Mobile, and I went to Jenny's Mom's house.

The course here indicated will be followed unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper, and in every case and exigency my best discretion will be exercised according to circumstances actually existing, and with a view and a hope of a peaceful solution of the national troubles and the restoration of fraternal sympathies and affections.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty.

Hand in hand with that we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land.

To those people in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them, help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support - to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective - to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak - and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

He wrote that he was afraid of becoming like his mother and 'the best thing for me was to die.' His mother was in an asylum for lunatics

The Thenardiers gave the old man their best room for the night

The next day, Marius returned to the Luxembourg Gardens wearing his best clothes

Marius and Cosette both did their best to raise Valjean's spirits, to show him how much they loved and needed him, to fill him with the strength and the desire to live again

I've done my best

After we eat, you will think this place is the best in the world.

A woman's bag is the best: they have more things in them

Nick calls them weekend bags; he says they are the best

But then the man looks to the right, and Jake knows it is his best chance

And he smiles at her because he thinks this expression suits her best

Yes, he thinks Mrs Dawson looks best when she is scared.

After only two weeks of working with Smith, he already knows that it is best to just nod.

The best thing a good detective can do is listen and observe

It's best to just nod

Yes, it's best to just nod.

This way you enter the competitions, you play your best, and you play by the rules

A real casino, one of the best in the city

A competition where only the best of the best get to play

She could say with her hand on her heart that this year - her eighteenth - had been the best so far

It was one of the best illusions available in the simulator, because if you stood at the edge of the cliff, it really felt like you could fall.

You're the best! I love you so much." The hour on the beach was soon over

Was this the best life they could hope for?

"Fantastic, more like! That was the best thing I've ever done in my life

She knew it would be best to go straight to the earth apartment, but she felt a little afraid to do that

But I believe that this is best for all of us." He looked over at Dani, who nodded in agreement

It was the best time of year, before the heat of summer

The best party I've been to for a long time.'

She wasn't a dancer anymore; now she worked behind the curtain, in the production end of the show, but she still felt physically and psychologically best when she weighed no more than she had weighed when she'd been a performer.

"Tina, if you need an attorney, this is the best in Las Vegas."

She left the bedroom, returned to the kitchen, and drank two shots of Tina Evans's best bourbon

"If Joel's right - and I'm sure he is - then it's best to get in the habit of staying away right from the start."

The best you've got."

She opened her purse, found her makeup, and covered the tearstains as best she could.

Tina paged through the book until she found the code that she needed to call up the list of the hotel's best customers

"They had the best wilderness clothing and the best down-lined sleeping bags, the best winter tents, plenty of charcoal and other heat sources, plenty of food, and two wilderness experts to guide them

"Why? Jaborski was the best

The very best

"I'm just trying to think how best to phrase what's on my mind

So it'll work out for the best either way." She returned from the window, sat on the couch again, beside Elliot

"What's your best dish?"

"When I was poor, I looked forward to the day when I'd have a lovely home full of beautiful things, all arranged by the very best interior decorator

They fell easily into the pace and rhythm that had earlier best pleased them

"It's best to be thorough in a situation like this."

"The best he can hope to do is avoid losing more ground."

If you want to purchase a false passport, a counterfeit driver's license, or anything of that nature, you can pick and choose from several of the best document-forgery artists in the world, because this is where a lot of them live

"'Laughter is a balm for the afflicted, the best defense against despair, the only medicine for melancholy.'"

"But kids aren't the best observers," she argued

The best thing we could do is get the grave reopened

So if we can't examine the body, we'll have to do the next best thing

He certainly wasn't old enough to remember all the cards that were dealt and calculate his chances from that, like some of the very best players can do

So he has to try to reach me as best he can."

He was the best and brightest young officer who ever served under me

So if they can't open the grave and see for themselves what we've done to Danny Evans, what are they going to do instead? They're going to do the next best thing - talk to the person who was supposedly the last one to see the boy's corpse before it was sealed in the coffin

The best decision we can make is to make no decisions at all

"Instead of sneaking around to some out-of-the-way motel, we'll march right into one of the best hotels in town."

"Morgan's the best."

'I understand, Helene, and I'll do my best for Henri whether you tell me or not

'I am sorry, but perhaps it was for the best.'

'You think the best of everyone.'

'Were doing our best, Mrs Price Ridley,' said the Chief Constable.

When you get to my age, you will find that you like to think the best of people.'

'I don't think you are the best judge of that.'

I suppose that would be the best thing

'Of course! That's what he wants you to think! That you know the truth - and that it's best for everyone as it is

'He did his best to get himself arrested for the murder.'

As soon as they've destroyed all our guns and ships and railways, they'll begin to catch us one by one, picking the best and keeping us in cages and things

We must go to the British Museum and choose the best books in it

There, it seemed to me, I had the best chance of learning what the Martians and human beings were doing for death

You can't even find a newspaper! If you want a rest and a change, then the best place is the sea.'

Packing is one of those things that I do best.

Get my best boots ready, please.'

But laughter is always best.

I wanted to make the best marriage settlement I could in order to protect her interests, if Laura Fairlie dies, I wrote, 'the twenty thousand pounds will be left according to her will.' That evening, I sent the settlement to Sir Percival's lawyer.

It was done with the best of intentions.'

But in 1948 she was thirty years old, and many people thought that she was too old to be the best

Even he - a fifty-five-year-old man - could win against the best female players