SUMMIT in a Sentence

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75 example sentences for SUMMIT, such as:

1. Get to another summit in your career.
2. They stopped at the summit of the stairs.
3. Those who turn back never reach the summit.
4. A Western European summit was held in Bonn.
5. As we neared the summit, we were tiring fast.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUMMIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
summit
 n.  utmost height; highest point of a mountain
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  From its summit there fluttered a little wisp of pink, showing up hard and bright against the grey rocks behind.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2  Her eyes now rested on the white summit of a cloud.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
3  ; but her only offer of exchange was addressed to Miss Crawford, as they gained the summit of a long hill, and was not more inviting than this: "Here is a fine burst of country."
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  They stood now, on the summit of a little hill, commanding the open fields in every direction for three or four miles.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  They stopped at the summit of the stairs.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
6  As the resting man looked at the barrow he became aware that its summit, hitherto the highest object in the whole prospect round, was surmounted by something higher.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
7  The ashes of the original British pyre which blazed from that summit lay fresh and undisturbed in the barrow beneath their tread.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
8  On the summit of the latter stood Charley, sufficiently elevated by its height to see into the room.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
9  From a distance there simply appeared to be a motionless figure standing on the top of the tumulus, just as Eustacia had stood on that lonely summit some two years and a half before.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
10  On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
11  I found the black tor upon which I had seen the solitary watcher, and from its craggy summit I looked out myself across the melancholy downs.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
12  But I had my own experience for a guide since it had shown me the man himself standing upon the summit of the Black Tor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
13  The sun was already sinking when I reached the summit of the hill, and the long slopes beneath me were all golden-green on one side and gray shadow on the other.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
14  From its summit I could now make out through a haze of smoke the Palace of Green Porcelain, and from that I could get my bearings for the White Sphinx.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IX
15  I was just upon the point of reaching the summit of bliss, when an old marchioness who had been mistress to the Prince, my husband, invited him to drink chocolate with her.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XI
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Above the treeline take a grassy path leading steeply towards the summit.
2  Get to another summit in your career.
3  As we approached the summit we were vouchsafed a rare vision.
4  A Western European summit was held in Bonn.
5  Man can climb to the highest summit, but he cannot dwell there long.
6  He said Japan would continue to pursue the policies laid down at the London summit.
7  As we neared the summit, we were tiring fast.
8  The staff is working frantically on final arrangements for the summit.
9  Follow the very well-trodden path to the summit.
10  The two presidents agreed to hold a summit in the spring.
11  Those who turn back never reach the summit.
12  The Pic Long is the highest summit in the region.
13  The country was granted observer status at the summit.
14  The president announces what he calls a breakthrough in Copenhagen on the climate change summit.
15  In public neither Mr. Blair's visit nor the regional summit in Nepal has done anything to alter India's position on dialogue with Pakistan.