Sample Sentences for
zenith
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zenith as in:  its zenith

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He met her when her career was at its zenith.
zenith = highest point
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    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.  (source)
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    The vast wasteland of television programming had finally reached its zenith, and the average person was no longer limited to fifteen minutes of fame.  (source)
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    these quarrels reached the zenith of absurdity when...  (source)
    zenith = peak or highest point
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    He laughed with disbelief as the object finally reached its impossible zenith and began a slow, arcing descent.  (source)
    zenith = highest point
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    Out of the dozen contradictory Zeniths which together make up the true and complete Zenith, none is so powerful and enduring yet none so unfamiliar to the citizens as the small, still, dry, polite, cruel Zenith of the William Eathornes; and for that tiny hierarchy the other Zeniths unwittingly labor and insignificantly die.†  (source)
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    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.  (source)
    zenith = its highest point
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    Out of the dozen contradictory Zeniths which together make up the true and complete Zenith, none is so powerful and enduring yet none so unfamiliar to the citizens as the small, still, dry, polite, cruel Zenith of the William Eathornes; and for that tiny hierarchy the other Zeniths unwittingly labor and insignificantly die.†  (source)
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    at its zenith  (source)
    zenith = highest point
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    After the sun passes zenith it is afternoon and quickly evening with a whispering dusk as long as was the morning.  (source)
    zenith = its highest point
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    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.  (source)
    zenith = highest (most advanced) state
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    The sun climbed through the sky, reached its zenith, began to come down.  (source)
    zenith = highest point
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    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.  (source)
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    Ser Jorah Mormont drew her aside as the sun was creeping toward its zenith.†  (source)
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zenith as in:  look to the zenith

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ESTRAGON: ... Look at the little cloud. VLADIMIR: (raising his eyes). Where? ESTRAGON: There. In the zenith.  (source)
zenith = straight up
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a cloud ... hurried across the zenith and hid the brightening stars.  (source)
zenith = sky directly above
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    It was hooked up to a 1977 Zenith Color TV.  (source)
    Zenith = name of a company
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    It is not for nothing that Zenith is in matters social rapidly becoming known as the choosiest inland city in the country.  (source)
    Zenith = (in this novel) the name of Babbit's city
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