How to use "most" in a sentence

'The most beautiful place on Earth'

Edward Abbey, one of my favourite writers, described it as 'the most beautiful place on Earth'

It's not very long - only a little over nineteen kilometres - but it's one of the most difficult bike trails in the US

I hope I get some sleep because tomorrow I want to hike the most popular trail in southern Utah - Little White Horse.

Blue John Canyon will be the most difficult part of the hike.

Twenty minutes later, I arrive at the most difficult part of the trail

As most of my weight pushes on one side of the boulder, it makes a strange sound

This means that the most important thing of all is to save water.

I spend most of the day chipping, resting, and counting the minutes before my next drink of water.

7.30 am That last video recording was the most pessimistic so far

This is the time I am most comfortable

By early afternoon, Elliot had received an email from Steve Pratchett, the most important of Aron's climbing friends

I tell them to give most of my things to Sonja

What I need most of all is water

A week later, I was back in hospital in Denver for my fifth and most difficult operation

"You have things here that most people only read about, Captain."

The Indian Ocean had the most beautiful rocks, plants and fish in the world

He wanted the pearl to grow, alone there in the cave, until it was truly the most fantastic pearl in the world.

For most of that time I enjoyed it, but now I had to leave.

Students began to come in, most of them wearing dirty jeans

I waited outside for most of the day

But most of the time I just try to do the right thing.

Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection

I now reiterate these sentiments; and, in doing so, I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible that the property, peace, and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming administration

So far as possible, the people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which is most favorable to calm thought and reflection

YOU have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."

That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring political mechanism the modern world has ever seen.

He was the most brilliant man I have ever known in the insurance profession

'You thought I was drinking brandy all day - but I threw most of it away

Mrs Purkiss was awake most of the night, and Mr Purkiss slept badly and was awake between one and two o'clock, but they heard nothing

Polly Nichols was not the first 'Unfortunate' who was murdered that year, so Scotland Yard chiefs sent their most experienced officer to investigate

Today he is probably the most famous killer in the world, Jack the Ripper

What is the most probable picture of the murderer? He was a short man, not more than 1.68m, between 28-35 years old, with a light brown moustache

Javert looked up and saw Monsieur Madeleine, one of the most important people in the town.

He became a very wealthy man but lived a simple life, using most of his money to build new hospitals and schools

Again, most people pretended not to be surprised

But the object that most attracted Cosette's attention was a large, golden-haired doll in a beautiful long pink dress

'He dresses so poorly but can afford to buy the most expensive doll in Montfermeil!'

He was unhappy about many things - about losing his teeth, about the political situation but, most of all, about the fact that he had not seen his grandson for four years, since their big quarrel

He remembered the little girl he had rescued from the Thenardiers ten years earlier, and felt sad that he was no longer the most important man in her life

Tall, arrogant, dressed in his expensive suit and with a watch that costs more than most people make in a year.

And Gerry understands better than most people exactly how true that is.

He decided to come to the biggest, richest, most important gambling city in the world, and he decided to cheat.

Twenty tired faces: some talking, but most are silent and waiting like her.

The government uses most of the city's energy to build virtual simulations, so that people can experience beautiful places without actually going anywhere

It was true; life for most people was difficult

"But we already study virtually most of the time."

And when there's so little work available, most people have no hope of changing their lives

"The tests will take most of the time available."

Some of them looked a little stiff and strange, maybe; but most of them seemed perfectly normal

Every summer, Mrs Van Hopper stayed at the Hotel Cote d'Azur, the biggest and most expensive hotel in Monte Carlo

People say that Manderley's one of the most beautiful houses in England

'You certainly made the most of your time

We looked at the pictures in the long gallery and at most of the rooms downstairs

'I think I did most of the talking,' I said

'I suppose Rebecca did most of it.'

'Yes, I suppose she was the most beautiful woman I ever saw in my life.'

The room, a bedroom, was the most beautiful I had ever seen

I looked round the room, the most beautiful in Manderley

He would do most of the work.'

It was a look of joy - of joy and the most terrible hate

'Everyone thought she was the kindest, the most charming person

'This is most unpleasant for you and your husband,' Colonel Julyan said to me

'But Miss Nevons is the most beautiful.'

Tomorrow was one of the most important days of her life: December 30

The tricky spelling of the title was not Tina's idea, but most of the rest of the program was her creation, and she remained pleased with what she had wrought

As soon as she made that decision, most of her nervous energy dissipated

At forty-six, he was the most successful producer in Las Vegas, with twenty years of hit shows behind him

He would most likely die on the stage, in the middle of puzzling out a tricky production problem.

Many were still in the communal dressing rooms, while other girls, already costumed, waited in the halls or at the edge of the big stage, talking about children and husbands and boyfriends and recipes, as if they were secretaries on a coffee break and not some of the most beautiful women in the world.

The car was immaculate, in better shape than most new cars these days

With that attitude plus a few money-management skills, they were able to hang on longer than most slot players who plunged at the dollar machines after getting nowhere with quarters, and because of their patience and perseverance, the duchesses won more jackpots than did the tide of tourists that ebbed and flowed around them

Even these days, when most machines could be played with electronically validated value cards, the nickel duchesses wore black gloves to keep their hands from becoming filthy after hours of handling coins and pulling levers; they always sat on stools while they played, and they remembered to alternate hands when operating the machines in order not to strain the muscles of one arm, and they carried bottles of liniment just in case.

The duchesses, who for the most part were widows and spinsters, often ate lunch and dinner together

In a country that worshiped youth, most elderly Americans devoutly desired to discover a place where they belonged, but unlike the duchesses, many of them never found it.

Magyck! Was the most entertaining Vegas show that Elliot Stryker had ever seen.

But her physical beauty was not what most excited him

By ten-thirty most of the audience had left and those who hadn't gone yet were in line, moving up the steps toward the rear doors of the showroom

Knowing this feast had been laid on for the party, few of those present had eaten dinner, and most of the dancers had eaten nothing since a light lunch

"I guess you'll have to be here most nights for a long time to come."

"Well, now that the show's opened successfully, most of my share of the producer's chores are public relations and promotional stuff

or even most nights

"But if you just put your name on our work list, we'll most likely have a man there by four o'clock this afternoon, tomorrow morning at the latest

Bally's, formerly the MGM Grand, was getting to be one of the older establishments on the continuously rejuvenating Las Vegas Strip, but it was still one of the most popular hotels in town, and on this last day of the year it was packed

Not unexpectedly, he received considerably more tips than most dealers did.

Maybe it's the most important part." He nodded sanctimoniously

The hotel possessed an amazing wealth of information about its most favored customers

Although the hotel collected this data with, for the most part, the customers' happiness in mind, Tina wondered how pleased these people would be to learn that the Golden Pyramid maintained fat dossiers on them.

As he drew near, he opened his arms, as if it was the most natural thing in the world for him to hold and comfort her, as if he had held her many times before, and she leaned against him in the same spirit of familiarity

And I'm positive it can't be a stranger, which rules out most of the world."

She was hysterical most of the time, in a slow-motion breakdown

Boring as hell most of the time

The two of us haunted furniture stores from Vegas to Los Angeles to San Francisco, antique shops, galleries, everything from flea markets to the most expensive stores we could find

On Sunrise Mountain most of the big, expensive houses featured natural landscaping - which meant rocks, colored stones, and artfully arranged cacti instead of grass, shrubs, and trees - in acknowledgment that man's grip on this portion of the desert was new and perhaps tenuous

Although a judicial purist might have disapproved, prosecutors and public defenders and tax attorneys and criminal lawyers and corporate counsel were mingling and getting pleasantly drunk with the judges before whom they argued cases most every week

Evidently sensing Vince's onrushing blowup and aware that it wouldn't help them accomplish their mission, Bob quickly said, "Listen, Stryker, we can't answer most of your questions because we don't know

But it seems to me the most obvious thing we have to consider is that the scouts and their leaders saw something they weren't supposed to see."

And most of those remote areas are owned by the federal government

Vince Foster found dead in a Washington park and officially declared a suicide even though most of the forensic evidence points to murder

People might have discounted most of what the boys said about it, but they'd have believed Jaborski and Lincoln

After all, the last couple of years we were married, Michael was running around with a lot of other women, spending most of his time away from home, and Danny felt even more abandoned than I did

Furthermore, keno was a game that didn't have any appeal for either smart gamblers or cheaters, the two types of customers who most interested the security men

For the most part, Reno's streets were clean and dry in spite of a recent snowfall, though occasional patches of black ice waited for the unwary motorist

Maybe killing them is the most natural, admirable thing I could do."

Self-preservation is one of the most powerful drives God gave us

He considered the requisitioning of this executive jet to be one of his most important accomplishments in the three years that he had been chief of the Nevada bureau of the Network

This slot was one of the half-dozen most powerful in the Network's executive hierarchy

With that title, he would be one of the most powerful men in the United States, more of a force to be reckoned with than any mere Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense could hope to be.

That's really what I most wanted to be, but I didn't really have the skill for it

It was remarkably free of ruts and chuckholes for most of its length, although the Explorer scraped bottom a few times when the track took sudden, sharp dips.

"It most likely is enormous

But if this is a military operation, then most of the staff is probably assigned here under the same conditions submariners have to live with

No one yet had come out of the building to challenge them, which most likely meant that Danny had jinxed the video security system.

There were more video displays than Tina could count at a glance; most were switched on, and data flowed in the form of graphs, charts, and numbers

It was around then that a Chinese scientist named Li Chen defected to the United States, carrying a diskette record of China's most important and dangerous new biological weapon in a decade

"And Wuhan-400 has other, equally important advantages over most biological agents

He'd used up most of his physical reserves getting out of the lab reservation, and he was also beginning to feel some of the early symptoms of Wuhan-400

you know most of the rest."

Although The Eyes of Darkness does not have the intensity, the humor, the depth of characterization, the complexity of theme, or the pace of later novels, readers have responded positively to it over the years, most likely because the device of a lost child - and the dedicated mother who will do anything to find out what happened to her little boy - strikes a primal chord in all of us.

He stayed in his room most of the time, and drank more than before

They took away some of his instruments, but told the commissaire that the most interesting documents and instruments had been destroyed.

But then there were all the questions she had never answered: the most important ones.

Andre believed that his transmitter was the most important discovery since the invention of the wheel

He had most of his meals in the laboratory

But I am the sort of woman you most dislike, and yet you adore me, don't you?'

There is a path from Old Hall, where she lives, to our garden gate, so most people coming from there come to the study window instead of going along the road to the front door.

She also had the most unusual eyes I have ever seen - for they were almost golden, too

Then Lawrence asked his most important question

'Ah, what did Mr Redding do most afternoons? He went up to Old Hall and painted Miss Protheroe's picture

'Only that it is probably a very ordinary murder, by an angry poacher most likely.'

'I met him at a dinner not long ago and we had a most interesting talk

'I know that in books it is always the most unlikely person

But in real life it is usually the most obvious one

At most, people believed there might be living things on Mars, perhaps less developed than us and ready to welcome visitors

He approached it, surprised at the size and even more surprised at the shape, since most meteorites are fairly round

Even within the five - kilometer circle, most people were unaffected

However, for most of the time the daily routine of work, food, drink and sleep went on as it had done for countless years.

There were a few people still alive there; most of them were very frightened, and many of them had been burnt

The Martian came into sight down the river, most of it under the water

I saw an empty boat, very small and far away, moving down the river and, taking off most of my wet clothes, I swam to it

But most people in London do not read Sunday papers.

As it was reported later, most of them remained busy with preparations in the pit on Horsell Common until nine that night, doing something that produced a great amount of Black Smoke.

After several more hours on the road, they suddenly saw the sea and the most amazing crowd of ships of all types that it is possible to imagine.

That second start was the most foolish thing I ever did

But no human being saw as much of them as I did and lived to tell the story, and I can say that I have seen four, five or six of them slowly performing the most difficult work without sound or any other signal

After that I avoided the hole in the wall for most of a day.

And they've taken over the capital of the most powerful country in the world

He won most of the games, and when we did not want to play any more I went back up on the roof.

It came most loudly down Exhibition Road

I know very little about medical matters, but it seems to me most likely that the Martians were killed by germs.

There are only twenty-four hours in the day, and you sleep most of that time

They fought most of the time.

The most exciting thing is to let girls tow your boat

This goes on for most of the afternoon

She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, and yet there seemed to be something missing - I did not know what.

Can't you see that Miss Halcombe has more intelligence than most men? She is a noble creature, full of strength and courage, and she'll use it all to protect that foolish little wife of yours

Mrs Fairlie was a foolish ugly woman who had somehow managed to marry one of the most handsome men in England.

It may be the most important topic, because women can only be equal to men if they have an equal education.

One of the most important people of this time was Mary Wollstonecraft

Her most famous book is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

One of the most famous fighters for girls' education today is Malala Yousafzai

The most famous is a woman called Emmeline Pankhurst

The most famous one was called "Freedom or Death"

In 1999, Time magazine called Emmeline Pankhurst one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century

In most countries, they can now vote

Simone de Beauvoir wrote her most famous work, Le Deuxieme Sexe (The Second Sex), in 1949

In 2012, she was named in the Time 100, a list of the 100 most important people in the world

Women still do most of the work in the home, which means that many of them are working a lot more than men

She was one of the most famous scientists the world has ever known.

Rosalind is most famous for her work on DNA while at King's College, London.

She is most famous for discovering a medicine for malaria, which has saved millions of lives.

Fanny was the top female athlete at the London Olympic Games because she got the most medals.