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reach the highest or most decisive or final stage- culminated in her defriending him
- their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development
- culminated in failure and disgrace
- This would always culminate with the master's arms going around White Fang's neck and shoulders while the latter crooned and growled his love-song.London, Jack -- White Fang
- Those are the antecedents, and the culmination.Dickens, Charles -- Hard Times
- This is it, she thinks, the culmination of everything.Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
- Love, regrets, desires, wishes had all culminated to whirl inside her until she'd clung to him.Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
- This all seemed to culminate one night with my most vivid memory as a child.Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
- The culmination of everything we've worked toward.Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
- All our intimacy culminates then.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
- As Christianity spread, the shrine got bigger, layer upon layer, culminating in this colossal basilica.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- Duane could not see any other culmination of this series of events than a meeting between Knell and himself.Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
- The curate, I found, was quite incapable of discussion; this new and culminating atrocity had robbed him of all vestiges of reason or forethought.H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
- She had reached her culmination: her voice rose trilling and bright over the storm of applause, and soared as high and joyful as her triumph.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- But the festivities continued, culminating in dancing.Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
- It had been a hectic week, culminating in that weird scene at the emergency room.Carl Hiassen -- Hoot
- It was a culmination of the mood he had been in all the day.Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Cesar blamed himself, assuming that his behavior on the night that had culminated in his ride home in the deputy's car, had caused the problem.W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
- Such were the consequences of the epidemic at its culminating point.Albert Camus -- The Plague
- She was also the winner, between 1938 and 1958, of nine Poet of the Year awards, culminating finally in the much-coveted State Poet Laureateship.Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon