Example Sentences

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“Even with the welcome rain and snow forecast across the West, the big picture remains the same. The past two decades have culminated in critically low reservoir conditions,” Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton said Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Evidently, these improvements have culminated in the triumphant touchdown of Chandrayaan-3.

From Scientific American • Aug. 23, 2023

More than 15,000 people, many traveling from abroad, were expected to attend the event in Belgrade, which would have culminated in a Pride march.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2022

Unprecedented drought and heat, combined with bad land management, have culminated in wildfires of historic proportion in California.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2021

The central impulse of development seems to have come from the East, in historic times at least, and to have followed the line of the Mediterranean, to have culminated in Europe.

From Time and Change by Burroughs, John