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• Headings appear at the tops of pages.From the entry top
• The dress code at our college specifically bans strappy tops.From the entry strappy top
• The land around here is very ridgy, so we get too little sun between ridges and too much wind at the tops.From the entry ridgy
• They wore jorts and crop tops; or strappy, S&M-influenced getups; or pajamas emblazoned with cartoons.2025 May 5, Spencer Kornhaber, “Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN. From the entry getup
• You know, us 'silver tops' are leaving the profession or retiring.2022 October 13, Charlie Carey, quoting Kath-Ann Terrett, “B.C. nurses rally outside VCH, as Hospital Employees' Union ratifies new…. From the entry silver top
• The “inclusive and nonbinary” collection consists of slipdresses, dayjamas, tops and bottoms, and robes in luxurious silk.2022 July 28, Christian Chensvold, “Roy G. Takes Tie-Dye to the Next Level”, in California Apparel News, archived from the original on 11…. From the entry dayjamas
• Soon neat rows of coyote brush rise on either side, their tops trimmed and even.2016, C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, Virago, page 101. From the entry coyote brush
• All these old dedushkas stomping around singing along at the tops of their lungs!2014, Josh Weil, The Great Glass Sea, Grove Press, →ISBN. From the entry dedushka
• The women usually wore bikini tops with shorts, swimsuits underneath cover-ups or just swimsuits.2013, Velvet Carter, Blissfully Yours, page 93. From the entry showcase
• I give their little ‘womance’ six months tops before Angel gets tired of her.”2013, Marcia Clark, “Chapter 3”, in Inherit the Dead, Touchstone, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry womance
• Her sponsor sent her bikini briefs and racing tops that she felt very uncomfortable wearing.2013, David A. Baron, Claudia L. Reardon, Steven H. Baron, Clinical Sports Psychiatry: An International Perspective, page 20. From the entry bikini briefs
• There are grey Grecian tops and a light, sheer, silver cardigan.2012, Melanie Calvert, Freycinet, page 105. From the entry knit
• It all took maybe three minutes, tops, and the dealer was now ninety dollars richer.2012, Michael Daniel Baptiste, Godchild. From the entry custie
• It's good to see a superhero movie finally giving some consideration to us "silver tops"!2011, Patton Oswalt, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 260. From the entry silver top
• Kellogg also expanded the brand by introducing pancakes, mini waffles, French toast, and muffin tops.2011, Sherri Liberman, American Food by the Decades, page 134. From the entry muffin top
• Turnip tops appear in many cuisines for good reason: they fill a very hungry gap.2010 October 25, Alys Fowler, “Alys Fowler: Turnip tops”, in The Guardian. From the entry turnip tops
• If the stalker thriller “Obsessed,” which opens on Friday, tops the box office, Clinton R.2009 April 22, Michael Cieply, “He’s Behind the Guffaws and the Gore”, in The New York Times. From the entry stalker
• Duench whips out bowls with expandable tops, hangable onion holders, portion control plates.2009 March 2, Nancy J. White, “In tough times, folks turn to Tupperware”, in Toronto Star. From the entry hangable
• She was well known for wearing short pleated skirts with knitted and crotched sleeveless tops.2009, Thokozile Gurganious, The Government's Child, page 47. From the entry crotched
• Gigantic jets appear to provide an electrical connection between cloud tops and the ionosphere.2009, Michael C. Kelley, The earth's ionosphere: plasma physics and electrodynamics, Academic Press, page 364. From the entry gigantic jet
• They also had important connections to advocacy groups and the local "grass tops."2007, David G. Smith, Judith D. Moore, Medicaid Politics and Policy, 1965–2007, New Brunswick, N.J.; London: Transaction Publishers…. From the entry grass tops
• They’re almost identical, dressed in matching blue jeans and lace tops.2005, Brigid Lowry, With Lots of Love from Georgia, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry crocodiley
• Grandees must covet condos, since they let bids rip, And "spaces" measured footmeal now reach record tops.2001, Arnold Klein, Rangefinder & Powderhorn. From the entry footmeal
• When we think we see cats chasing mice, howling on roof tops, we are hallucinating.1996, Andrew Pessin, Sanford Goldberg, The Twin Earth Chronicles, page 109. From the entry robocat
• A peasant blouse that showed the tops of those lovely little apples.1975, C[harles] W[illiam] Smith, chapter IX, in Country Music, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 256. From the entry apple
• Johnny, I just can't resist them peedie white socks with the blue ring round the tops.1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe, Polygon, published 2019, page 66. From the entry peedie
• Tops and Bottoms (also Tops, Busters, Ts, Mis-spots): These are the dice used by the professional cheats.1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 283. From the entry buster
• He liked to look with avuncular owlishness over the tops of his specs.1956, Saul Bellow, “Isaac Rosenfeld”, in It All Adds Up, page 263. From the entry owlishness
• In case there is a right and wrong side to the tops, put two rights together.1918, Pacific Rural Press - Volume 95, page 392. From the entry right
• The glare of a burning house shone red in the sky over the roof tops.1916, Boyd Cable, Action Front, page 167. From the entry go west
• All the lullabies of the world suggest undulatory movements or rockabyes in the tree tops.1916, The Pedagogical Seminary, page 98. From the entry rockabye
• Benci : Or, two lions combatant azure, in base, a mountain of three tops of the second.1901, Howel Wills, Florentine Heraldry: A Supplement to the Guide-books, page 128. From the entry clymant
• Such an abutment would typically have wing walls that have sloping tops, to match the profile of the embankment.2023 May 3, Philip Haigh, “The art and science of building bridges”, in RAIL, number 982, page 40. From the entry wing wall
• But finding these miracle tops is easier said than done.2023 March 6, Natasha Harding, “I've found the perfect 'going out' top, and it's from H&M”, in Cosmopolitan UK, London: Hearst Magazines…. From the entry spenny
• Public tops play a crucial role in discovering cover-ups.2022, Jie Gao, “The Fatality Quota System”, in Work Safety Regulation in China: The CCP’s Fatality Quota System (Routledge Contemporary…. From the entry Hainan

Meaning of tops

1. adverb At the very most; as a maximum.
2. adjective Great; excellent.
3. noun The uppermost field of a dartboard; the double-20 field.

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Questions about tops in a sentence

How do you use tops in a sentence?

Tops is used as an adverb, adjective and noun. For example: “Your essay should be two pages, tops.”

What is a short sentence with tops?

“This is tops for a musical.”

What does tops mean?

Tops means at the very most; as a maximum.