Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: nicest
IPA transcription: [n'aɪsɪst]
Usage examples
  • She had the jolliest, the nicest face in the world.
  • I made them of the nicest rags, and braided them in stripes.
  • Inside is a warm, soft bed made of milkweed or cattail down, the very nicest kind of a bed for the babies.
  • At the bottom of the hole is the nicest little room you can imagine, and there I have made a soft bed to rest in at night.
  • "She did it because she wanted you, and she wanted you because you are the dearest old thing in the world, and the nicest to have about.
  • It was nice to play with the children, and nice to have a home to show our relatives, and nicest of all to have them see you--how beautiful you are at the head of the house."
  • "I'm sure," said Miss Katy, "mamma says she don't know what does keep me alive; half a dewdrop and a little bit of the nicest part of a rose-leaf, I assure you, often last me for a day.
  • Around the nicest green meads, where the deer were playing in the grass, grew magnificent oaks and beeches; and if the bark of one of the trees was cracked, there grass and long creeping plants grew in the crevices.
  • As our first loud yell of terror broke forth, it was replied to by something, from near the bowsprit of the stranger, so closely resembling the scream of a human voice that the nicest ear might have been startled and deceived.
  • Her voice, from seeming feeble and monotonous, became clear and penetrating: it was varied, with the nicest discrimination, for the expression of every character, changing its modulation from tones of softest sensibility, to those of archest humour; and from reasoning severity, to those of uncultured rusticity.