pinnacle

India then defeated South Africa in the final to reach what many regard as the pinnacle of achievement in the history of Indian women's cricket.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

A celebrated army soprano and national household name, Peng helped burnish Xi’s public profile as he reached the pinnacle of power in late 2012.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The pinnacle of that effort was a massive contract with Swiss marketing giant ISL.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Now, imagine all that delirium, sign-waving and call-in voting was in service of pushing Art Garfunkel to the pinnacle of the premier music video countdown.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

It seemed to Legolas, as he strained his farseeing eyes, that he caught a glint of white: far away perchance the sun twinkled on a pinnacle of the Tower of Guard.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

The route involves navigating extremely challenging terrain, significant exposure, steep pinnacles and drops on both sides.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

He struck on an idea to carve representations of the American West into the granite pinnacles of the Central Black Hills: The Lakota leader Red Cloud, Lewis and Clark, George Armstrong Custer.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2025

The juniors appear to have risen to their career pinnacles.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

Thompson emphatically opened the past as a living resource while claiming one of the pinnacles of white, male Western culture for future use by others.

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

She was an eagle seeking out new pinnacles.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

Oak Flat is a cactus-covered, sun-baked landscape of pinnacled rock formations and Native American archaeological and burial sites, home to a plethora of plants and animals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

“I felt like the Last Man … left pinnacled in mid-heaven.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2016

Mr. Kelley “is doing something quite wonderful,” Mr. Tuggle said while showing a visitor around a pinnacled sideboard piled with vessels in orchid, dogwood, iris and nasturtium motifs.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2013

“Said to be most expensive set ever made in America at that time,” he wrote on the label for one pinnacled chair, listing its original home as a mansion in Yonkers.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2013

St. Martin’s Church, in close touch with the Manor, is of plain early English work, with a buttressed and pinnacled tower of small proportions.

From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Edwin Walford

She had guarded her memory of him so tenderly, weaving a thousand extravagant tales about him, pinnacling him above all men, her hero, her knight, her preux chevalier.

From The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull

She pointed, still smiling, to the purple clouds now pinnacling the west, and said that it was time to be going homeward.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks

"I will!" said Sammy Durgan with a sudden pinnacling of determination—and he sprang to his feet.

From The Night Operator by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard