Example Sentences

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Their album “Random Access Memories” and its smash single “Get Lucky” were crowning achievements in a career of immaculately produced dance music, played at pop-star scale.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2021

For many, Isaac Newton’s laws of universal order were crowning achievements of this movement.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2015

The Miocene was the mammalian Golden Age and there were crowning examples of what Osborn calls "adaptive radiation."

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur

We learned that, while they were crowning with flowers the statue of our city in Paris, they had no assistance but handsome words to send us.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 by Various

I found a warrant in her favoured bosom, King: She wore this on her heart when you were crowning her.

From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon