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ne plus ultra

NOUN
  1. the state of being without a flaw or defect

How To Use ne plus ultra In A Sentence

  • The two wedding-cake pulpits and the organ case opposite are as grand as can be, and interior so bracketed is the ne plus ultra of American colonial church architecture, plain and crisp and white, with exquisitely classical proportions. Archive 2009-01-01
  • The dog food Mrs. Sternheim consumed was top-of-the-line, gourmet bowwow, nutritional and preservative-free manna – "it tastes like a natural food product" – which she'll commence selling in early December in adjunct space to Zitomer Pharmacy and Department Store, the ne plus ultra pharmacy and emporium she and her husband, Howard Sternheim, own at 969 Madison Avenue. Zitomer's Goes to the Dogs (and Cats)
  • I grow Ne Plus Ultra - a heritage variety from the Garden Organic seed library - and it crops prolifically at the top of 7-8 ft vines! Jean's Knitting
  • And the ne plus ultra of jockish politicians must surely be the former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, who has completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon (2. 4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and a marathon) and climbed Mount Everest. Marathon Men
  • John Hallett, notwithstanding the roughness of his aspect, was rather knick-knacky in his tastes; a great patron of small inventions, such as the _improved_ ne plus ultra cork-screw, and the latest patent snuffers. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number
  • Would to heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy any kind of sieve, wind-fanners, or _ne plus ultra_ of machinery, devisable by man that would do it! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
  • If you really want to take the measure of Mozart 1756-1791 as a symphonist, do not juxtapose him with Haydn, the other ne plus ultra of the time. 'Contemporaries of Mozart Collection' offers contrasts to the master
  • Oliver Stone, always the ne plus ultra of disingenuousness, is by Bugliosi’s reckoning guilty of a “cultural crime” committed through a thousand manipulations, among them the use of a smoke machine to generate a puff of rifle smoke from the Grassy Knoll that JFK presents as being visible to people in Dealey Plaza. A Knoll of One’s Own
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