Pinnacle

//ˈpɪnəkəl//

"Pinnacle" in a Sentence (16 examples)

He's unstoppable right now but the question is how long he can remain at the pinnacle of his career.

It's the pinnacle of luxury.

Is man really the pinnacle of Creation, or just a freak of nature?

On the edge of a jutting pinnacle, three or four hundred feet above him, there stood a creature somewhat resembling a sheep in appearance, but armed with a pair of gigantic horns.

The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc. There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor.

There, roof and pinnacle the Dardans tear – / death standing near – and hurl them on the foe, / last arms of need, the weapons of despair; / and gilded beams and rafters down they throw, / ancestral ornaments of days ago.

In an instant Holmes raced up on to the ridge, and, standing upon a lofty pinnacle, craned his neck in every direction.

Australia is a pinnacle of social progress.

When I became a student of Tokyo University, the pinnacle of achievement in academic-focused Japan, the thing that most surprised me was that I could make 10,000 yen an hour as a home tutor.

Their assistance would arrive as a 400-kilometer, $5.9 billion China-invested railway is set for completion this year — the pinnacle of Chinese largesse for Laos.

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Kings, who remain in many respects the representatives of a vanished world, solitary pinnacles that topple over the rising waste of waters under which the past lies buried.

The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).

Some renowned metropolis / With glistering spires and pinnacles around.

In the city’s midst the gleaming marble of a thousand steps climbed to the citadel where arose four pinnacles beckoning to heaven, and midmost between the pinnacles there stood the dome, vast, as the gods had dreamed it.

And down this vast gulf upon which we were pinnacled the great draught dashed and roared, driving clouds and misty wreaths of vapour before it, till we were nearly blinded, and utterly confused.

The pediment of the Southern Transept is pinnacled, not inelegantly, with a flourished cross

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