Definition: 1. As the end result of a succession or process. 2. After everything has been considered.
Use 'ultimately' in a sentence:
1. No one knows which---if any---battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear.
2. The bubbles block the flow of blood to vital organs, and can ultimately lead to death.
3. Even though scientists play a part in transmitting information to journalists and ultimately the public, too often the blame for ineffective communication is placed on the side of the journalists.
4. Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
5. The process of aging can ultimately be brought under control.
6. The Vietnam conflict ultimately was lost.
7. All wealth comes ultimately from human labour.
8. He believes students ultimately learn more and encourages them to form study groups.
9. The one that is ultimately chosen is simply the brain's best theory.
10. Ultimately, we can't be bothered to change our attitude.
11. The buck stops with him. He is ultimately responsible for every aspect of the broadcast.
12. Yet it's worth noting that even if Apple ultimately loses this case, it has plenty of technical means to close a backdoor over time.
13. The most challenging moments in life are getting married, starting a family and ultimately retiring.
14. Ultimately my attitude was: stuff them.
15. Ultimately, though, you have to make your own judgements.
16. It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience.
17. She ultimately purchased a small piece of land with her husband and began growing their own foods.
18. The exhibition is an enjoyable and, ultimately, life-affirming experience.
19. Ultimately though, we're the same as our readers.
20. Ultimately, that's the thing universities don't want to admit.
21. Guerrero was ultimately arrested, but he made bail and fled to Colombia.
22. The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord& Taylor.
23. The answer depends on what kind of system is ultimately adopted.
24. Graduate unemployment is not, ultimately, a political problem ready to be solved.
25. Kant's work on the critique of experience became ultimately indistinguishable from ontology and metaphysics.
26. This is just the folder containing all of that stuff that we created a PDF out of ultimately.
27. That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.
28. I mean, there are some cautious steps I can take, but ultimately I cannot guarantee myself that.
29. Ultimately, Bismarck's revisionism scarcely affected or damaged British interests at all.
30. Both sides know they ultimately gain much more from economic interaction than they stand to lose.
31. Ultimately, he received a scholarship to attend Yale University.
32. For millennia the average person's stance toward providing for himself had been, ultimately I'm on my own.
33. "If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise the success rate," Rubinoff said, citing a variety of colleges ranging from large state institutions to smaller private schools.
34. Dishonesty is ultimately self-defeating.
35. All counting ultimately involves reference to something other than the things being counted.
36. How students ultimately handle stress may depend on their personal test-taking abilities.
37. All life depends ultimately on oxygen.
38. The divorce ultimately led to his ruin.
39. We need a filter or a lens to talk about then what is ultimately in control.
40. No one knows which—if any—battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear.
41. Ultimately, you'll have to make the decision yourself.
42. As a wise man once said, we are all ultimately alone.
43. She may be cynical about the film industry, but ultimately she has no intention of biting the hand that feeds her.
44. Politicians are ultimately accountable to the voters.
45. He was ultimately overthrown and the country descended into chaos.
46. Napoleon ultimately failed in his plan to defeat the two armies arrayed against him.
47. Whatever the scientists ultimately conclude, all of their data will immediately be disputed.
48. Ultimately, we can change the shape of people's lives.
49. What was it ultimately that led you to leave Sarajevo for Zagreb?
50. A poor diet will ultimately lead to illness.
51. This "smooths" the labor market and ultimately creates more jobs for locals.
52. This suggests that they were deciding between truth and dishonesty, and ultimately opting for the latter.
