apogee

How To Use apogee In A Sentence

• A sculptor reaches the apogee of his powers. Times, Sunday Times
• The orbit of the artificial satellite has an apogee of 200 miles from the earth.
• That was at the very apogee of the age of imperialism, when white men carved up the black continent between them.
• From their arrival in England the ‘Elgin Marbles’ had a revolutionary impact on European taste, and the Parthenon sculptures are still considered to mark the apogee of Greek art.
• The best-selling album of all time, this was the apogee of Jackson's career.
• It would mark the apogee of a dumbed-down society, but it is unlikely to happen.
• Not just because I do know the inverse square law (the difference between perigee and apogee, between catalepsy and cataplexy, distal and proxal, etc, etc, etc) and they maybe dont ... but because I can only consider anyone who "looks down on" anyone, regardless of what they do or dont know as a veritable "mousehole". On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• Yet by the end of the nineteenth century - the apogee of the Victorian Age - the moral justification for the empire and the scientific knowledge of the effects of opium use could no longer ensure that this drug trade would go unchallenged.
• At their apogee, the novels of Spillane claimed worldwide sales of over 180 million.
• The false claims advanced by the Bush administration that Saddam was building up a serious WMD program and that his regime had given training in “poisons and deadly gases” to al-Qaeda associates in Iraq were the apogee of this hysteria, as they helped to embroil the United States in the disastrous Iraq War. The Longest War