apotheosis

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Mr. Rood tells us, that the plantation model reached “the apotheosis of the form.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

“Huck Finn” was the apotheosis of Twain’s gift for truth-telling, as he exposed the sadistic oppression of Black people and made the slave Jim the hero.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

For Johnson to now be speaker of the House feels as if it is the apotheosis of his political career and aspirations.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2023

In the Civil Rights Movement timeline, 1965 is often seen as the apotheosis, the crowning moment.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2023

He was no ordinary scholar, this man, but the apotheosis of scholars: the most famous personage in Zosma, save the queen and the hierarch, and the most popular, bar none.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor