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the highest point - physically or as a metaphor- He met her when her career was at its zenith.
zenith = highest point
- these quarrels reached the zenith of absurdity when...John Hersey -- Hiroshima
- Mr. Fogg still held Aouda's hand in his own; Passepartout understood, and his big, round face became as radiant as the tropical sun at its zenith.Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
- ESTRAGON: ... Look at the little cloud.
VLADIMIR: (raising his eyes). Where?
ESTRAGON: There. In the zenith.Samuel Beckett -- Waiting for Godot - Witness this, god of the zenith, noblest of the gods,Homer -- The Odyssey
- After the sun passes zenith it is afternoon and quickly evening with a whispering dusk as long as was the morning.John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- An unvaried pall of cloud muffled the whole expanse of sky from zenith to horizon.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- a cloud ... hurried across the zenith and hid the brightening stars.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown
- It is not for nothing that Zenith is in matters social rapidly becoming known as the choosiest inland city in the country.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- The sun climbed through the sky, reached its zenith, began to come down.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- the sun was crossing the zenith to a winter place in the sky, a place where prayers of long winter nights would call out the long summer days of new growth.Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony
- ...and the sun passed the zenith and started down.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- He laughed with disbelief as the object finally reached its impossible zenith and began a slow, arcing descent.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- I find my zenith doth depend upon...William Shakespeare -- The Tempest
- It had risen nearly to its zenith and seemed to hover directly above the campus, shining a spotlight on Rowan and its quaint little doings.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- But even on this supposition the balanced civilization that was at last attained must have long since passed its zenith, and was now far fallen into decay.H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
- He knew that a few hours from now, with the sun at its zenith, the heat would be so great that he would not be able to lead his flock across the fields.Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist
- at its zenithAlexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- The captain of the Musketeers was therefore admired, feared, and loved; and this constitutes the zenith of human fortune.Dumas, Alexandre -- The Three Musketeers
- It was the time when the youthful Speranski was at the zenith of his fame and his reforms were being pushed forward with the greatest energy.Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
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zenith = the highest point (of the sky)
zenith = (in this novel) the name of Babbit's city
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zenith = highest (most advanced) state
zenith = the highest point
zenith = the highest point
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