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overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
Heart disease can get the best of us
How To Use have the best In A Sentence
- If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.
- If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.
- You just don't call a measly step or even two on a legend nicknamed "Air" any more than you call Barry Bonds, reputed to have the best eye at the plate in baseball, out on strikes on a borderline pitch. Starr Gazing: Is The Fix In?
- Far outside the city limits, where there is no light pollution, you have the best chance of a good display. The Sun
- I have the best of both worlds as I am in europe but with a daughter in the US so I got a second mothers' day today, prezzie and all! Sunday Sweets: Happy Mother's Day!
- We want the kids to have the best possible education.
- It gave £3m of lottery money to the building judged by viewers to have the best claim to preservation.
- She should have the best of forage, the purest of water, the cleanest and best of ventilated stables, and the air should be free from any taint of noxious vapors - in a word, the entire environment of this faithful animal should be as carefully and honestly protected as though she was human and not brute.
- You have the best ideas but it is smart to make others feel their views count. The Sun
- We have the best brand of wines and spirits.