Example Sentences

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Lately, car makers have abandoned cheap models and gone all in on loaded pickup trucks and luxury sport-utility vehicles, so average dealership prices have topped $50,000.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

They have also won 22 Grammy Awards and have topped the music charts on both sides of the Atlantic.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Castelion’s missiles have topped out at four times the speed of sound in those tests.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Nationwide, the layoffs have topped 1 million so far for the year, the most since the pandemic, according to Challenger.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2025

If the Pharos had somehow been plucked off the North African shore and placed on Lake Michigan, it would have topped the Chicago skyline until the construction of the Wrigley Building in 1922.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro