Pinnacles can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| pinnacle - raise on or as if on a pinnacle; "He did not want to be pinnacled" | ||
| pinnacle - surmount with a pinnacle; "pinnacle a pediment" | ||
Noun |
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| pinnacle - (architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower | ||
| pinnacle - a lofty peak | ||
| pinnacle - the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession" |
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| 1. | noun | "O happy ye, whose walls already rise!" / Exclaimed AEneas, and with envious eyes / looked up where pinnacles and roof-tops showed / the new-born city; then in wondrous wise, / clothed in the covering of the friendly cloud, / passed through the midst unseen, and mingled with the crowd. | |
| 2. | noun | ...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame. | |
| 3. | noun | He's unstoppable right now but the question is how long he can remain at the pinnacle of his career. | |
| 4. | noun | It's the pinnacle of luxury. | |
| 5. | noun | Is man really the pinnacle of Creation, or just a freak of nature? | |
| 6. | noun | On the edge of a jutting pinnacle, three or four hundred feet above him, there stood a creature somewhat resembling a sheep in appearance, but armed with a pair of gigantic horns. | |
| 7. | noun | The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc. There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor. | |
| 8. | noun | In an instant Holmes raced up on to the ridge, and, standing upon a lofty pinnacle, craned his neck in every direction. | |
| 9. | noun | Australia is a pinnacle of social progress. | |
| 10. | noun | When I became a student of Tokyo University, the pinnacle of achievement in academic-focused Japan, the thing that most surprised me was that I could make 10,000 yen an hour as a home tutor. | |
| 11. | noun | He's unstoppable right now but the question is how long he can remain at the pinnacle of his career. | |
| 12. | noun | It's the pinnacle of luxury. | |
| 13. | noun | Is man really the pinnacle of Creation, or just a freak of nature? | |
| 14. | noun | On the edge of a jutting pinnacle, three or four hundred feet above him, there stood a creature somewhat resembling a sheep in appearance, but armed with a pair of gigantic horns. | |
| 15. | noun | The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc. There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor. | |
| 16. | verb | Pinnacle a pediment. | |
| 17. | verb | There, roof and pinnacle the Dardans tear – / death standing near – and hurl them on the foe, / last arms of need, the weapons of despair; / and gilded beams and rafters down they throw, / ancestral ornaments of days ago. | |
| 18. | verb | There, roof and pinnacle the Dardans tear – / death standing near – and hurl them on the foe, / last arms of need, the weapons of despair; / and gilded beams and rafters down they throw, / ancestral ornaments of days ago. |
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| noun | |
| "O happy ye, whose walls already rise!" / Exclaimed AEneas, and with envious eyes / looked up where pinnacles and roof-tops showed / the new-born city; then in wondrous wise, / clothed in the covering of the friendly cloud, / passed through the midst unseen, and mingled with the crowd. | |
| ...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame. |
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| He's unstoppable right now but the question is how long he can remain at the pinnacle of his career. | |
| It's the pinnacle of luxury. | |
| Is man really the pinnacle of Creation, or just a freak of nature? | |
| On the edge of a jutting pinnacle, three or four hundred feet above him, there stood a creature somewhat resembling a sheep in appearance, but armed with a pair of gigantic horns. | |
| The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc. There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor. | |
| In an instant Holmes raced up on to the ridge, and, standing upon a lofty pinnacle, craned his neck in every direction. | |
| Australia is a pinnacle of social progress. | |
| When I became a student of Tokyo University, the pinnacle of achievement in academic-focused Japan, the thing that most surprised me was that I could make 10,000 yen an hour as a home tutor. | |
| He's unstoppable right now but the question is how long he can remain at the pinnacle of his career. | |
| It's the pinnacle of luxury. | |
| Is man really the pinnacle of Creation, or just a freak of nature? | |
| On the edge of a jutting pinnacle, three or four hundred feet above him, there stood a creature somewhat resembling a sheep in appearance, but armed with a pair of gigantic horns. | |
| The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc. There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor. | |
| verb | |
| Pinnacle a pediment. |
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| There, roof and pinnacle the Dardans tear – / death standing near – and hurl them on the foe, / last arms of need, the weapons of despair; / and gilded beams and rafters down they throw, / ancestral ornaments of days ago. | |
| There, roof and pinnacle the Dardans tear – / death standing near – and hurl them on the foe, / last arms of need, the weapons of despair; / and gilded beams and rafters down they throw, / ancestral ornaments of days ago. | |