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Example sentences for "culminated"

Lexicographically close words:
culm; culmen; culmina; culminant; culminate; culminates; culminating; culmination; culmine; culms
  1. The feature of public balls, however, was certainly a Dionysiac exaltation which culminated in the final galop infernal, as it was called, into which Musard particularly infused a special fury.

  2. The insurrection is believed to have culminated and to be declining.

  3. An acid correspondence followed, and ill-concealed armaments, which culminated in the summer of 1812 in Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

  4. Though alarmed by the revolutionary agitation in Germany, which culminated in the murder of his agent, the dramatist Kotzebue (q.

  5. The ill-feeling, influenced by the ravages of members of the order in Poland, culminated in a struggle which began in December 1519.

  6. The sharp dissensions which existed among the princes over the question of reform culminated in open warfare in 1460, when Albert was confronted with a league under the leadership of the elector palatine, Frederick I.

  7. As a Scotsman, Aberdeen was interested in the ecclesiastical controversy which culminated in the disruption of 1843.

  8. The bitter feelings engendered between employer and employed culminated in the peasants' revolt of 1381.

  9. More serious are his dramatic writings which began with Despot Voda and culminated in Ovid.

  10. A new star, the papers said, had suddenly appeared, unheralded, in the theatrical firmament, and rapidly culminated in the zenith.

  11. The morbid excitement of the previous day culminated in a febrile exaltation in which he lived and moved as in a separate existence.

  12. Logic arose, at least for the Western world, in the golden age of Greek speculation which culminated in Plato and Aristotle.

  13. It was the cruelty and vileness of the times which culminated in these deified monsters.

  14. Already the foundations were laid of the Catholic Church-system, which culminated in the Papacy of Rome.

  15. The first enactment of this description was passed under a stress of partisanship and political bitterness which culminated in the President's impeachment.

  16. To check this tendency a preference right of purchase was given to settlers on the land, a plan which culminated in the general preemption act of 1841.

  17. The beginning of the troubles which culminated in the final breach with Great Britain had quickly brought united action in the form of the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, in the Committees of Correspondence, and then in the Continental Congress.

  18. The contest culminated in the case of Trevett vs.

  19. My employments mere trifles of business, and that of dwelling on the days that culminated on the 21st of last year.

  20. Its crisis culminated in the Long Acre riots.

  21. Illustration] X THE riots in London culminated in an episode so cataclysmic that it sobered the civilised world.

  22. British patriotic arrogance culminated in the 18th and in the first half of the 19th century; in Lord Palmerston it found a champion at the head of the government.

  23. The Revolution culminated in the crisis of 1793, which sent the King to the scaffold.

  24. Guittone di Arezzo taught her to fix her thoughts in indelible signs, and two centuries of training culminated in the inspired composers, Orlando di Lasso and Palestrina.

  25. But the process of growth was going on which finally culminated in the controversy which was settled by the Council of Nicaea, held in the early part of the fourth century; that is, the year 325.

  26. Of course, the process of thought here and there was going on which finally culminated in the doctrine of the Trinity.

  27. The men baled with their hats in silence, when a large wave culminated over the stern, filling us up to our thwarts.

  28. The Khazars, straitened on every side, remained passive till the danger culminated in the accession of Attila (434).

  29. During the 4th century however, the growing power of Persia culminated in the annexation of eastern Armenia.

  30. 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.

  31. The vertebrates went forward and have culminated in man.

  32. The vertebrate impulse began in wormlike forms, in the old Palaeozoic seas, and stopped not till it culminated in man.

  33. We may say it has been bridged or filled with the humble ancestral forms that carried forward the precious evolutionary impulse of the vertebrate series till it culminated in man.

  34. Through the night the heavy clouds that had gathered after sunset culminated in a terrific thunderstorm.

  35. Yes, our gallant soldiers have sustained a reverse which, but for their stubborn fighting qualities and a somewhat inexplicable holding back on the part of the Germans, might very easily have culminated in disaster.

  36. Night after night, and month after month, he fanned the flame of popular feeling, until it culminated in the unparalleled meetings on Newhall Hill.

  37. His hopes and his ambitions had culminated in this son; and when he was removed, the father staggered under the blow, and never properly overcame the shock it gave him.

  38. The months of overstrained effort and anxiety that had culminated in its violent attack were telling upon him now, in the scarcely less perilous prostration that followed.


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