Sample sentences for CULMINATE

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Definition

reach the highest or most decisive or final stage

culminated in her defriending him

their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

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

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