crowning touch
Example Sentences
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It's the Spirit of Ecstasy, the Rolls-Royce's crowning touch.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2022
The crowning touch is a wafer-like chicharrón chip, a sort of crisp bookend to the whole drippy, delicious mess.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2019
In a crowning touch, Gordon attached a canister to the front of the secretary, and in it he placed a small scrap of a flag bearing a star.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2018
The crowning touch of her French Apple Pie is its crumb topping, made with flour, butter, brown sugar and walnuts; there’s enough of it to please the recipient of every slice.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2015
He spied the ascot beneath the flight jacket, the cartridge belt criss-crossing his torso, the Bowie knife, and the crowning touch, a World War I Von Richtofen flying cap.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
