Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: tallest
IPA transcription: [t'ɔlɪst]
Usage examples
  • He was the tallest and bravest and handsomest young man in the tribe--"
  • Mine was the prettiest of the whole, and the tallest, and the most perfect in every part.
  • Then the wizards who were bled carry away the two stones for about ten or fifteen miles, and place them as high as they can in the tallest tree.
  • There were twelve volumes of "The Beauties of Nature", a shelf full of "Elegant Extracts", there were volumes simply called "Poems", there were "Commentaries", there were "Travels" and "Astronomy" and the lowest and tallest shelf was full of "Music".
  • Phyllis, the next in age, was short and fat; then came Harry, then Erma, just sixteen (named after a German great-grandmother), and, last of all, Jack, tallest and jolliest of the group, who had just "passed his preliminaries," and would enter college next year.