How to Use culminate in a Sentence

culminate

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• A bitter feud culminated months of tension.
• The entire percussion section was on top of this propulsive piece’s many tambourines, rattles and gongs, which culminate into an explosive finish.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
• The story culminates in Ria mobilizing her punk community against the forces threatening their home.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
• The developments are causing concern as the U.S. midterm elections culminate on Tuesday.
  — Matt O'Brien and David Klepper, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2022
• At the end, the Fellowship will culminate with table reads of the participants’ works, along with a dinner with leaders of the New York film industry.
  — Ej Panaligan, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• The chain of events culminated in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2024
• The event sparked a lifetime of activism, culminating in his role in the march.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
• The event will culminate in a champagne toast at midnight to ring in 2023.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2022
• The events of this day, culminating in her suicide, frame the miniseries.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 20 June 2024
• The show culminated with Jon shouting out a string of moves — the A-Town stomp, the muscle, the thunder clap, the rockaway — as more dancers flooded the stage.
  — Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
• His essay positioned the site as the start of an era that would culminate in the 2016 election of Donald Trump.
  — Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023
• For the first time in its history, the event will culminate in a live broadcast of the final four categories.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Jan. 2023
• Line accounted for 57 of them, culminating in a 1-yard sneak for the tying score.
  — Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2023
• The jury’s work typically culminates near the end of its term, with the release of reports throughout the spring.
  — Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
• The tense meeting with the agents — two men and a woman — culminated in a back-and-forth on civil liberties.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
• The movie culminates in a series of courtroom scenes in which a judge — and the audience — must weigh her potential guilt.
  — Thomas Rogers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Your words, your ideas, your sleepless nights, and the smile that should be on your face —all culminating in someone else’s triumph.
  — Ebony Flake, Essence, 29 Jan. 2024
• The drive culminated in a 15-yard connection from Mason Walsh to tight end Mark Woodard.
  — Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
• The song aches with maturity and grace, and culminates in happy tears.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
• The book club will culminate in September with a special grand finale event that has yet to be announced.
  — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 16 May 2023
• On Monday the furor culminated in Corrain losing both her book deal and her agent.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• The struggle culminated in 2016 with the election of Mr. Jibas, who promised to take control of the resettlement fund.
  — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• Taking 4 to 5½ hours roundtrip, the train winds up the slopes of the Presidential Range, culminating in a passage over Crawford Notch.
  — Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• Bey also included a video of her mom, grooving in a dance that culminates in a playful shrug.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
• The story culminates over water, as the last leg of Seydou and Moussa’s odyssey features a reluctant Seydou at the helm of a boat.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
• The yearlong buildup will culminate this coming weekend in a grand finale to pick the 2023 song contest’s big winner.
  — Lindsey Weber, Vulture, 9 May 2023
• We were scheduled for seminars with this staffer and that one, to culminate in an hour with the esteemed editor.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2023
• The game itself was fascinating enough, but the events that culminated with the third-inning incident were the focus of the game.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2023
• The new research culminated in a 3D map that measures how the universe has been expanding over the past 11 billion years.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2024
• Sheinbaum’s ascension to the presidency culminated decades of battle for equal rights in a nation with a long legacy of machismo — and where women didn’t win the right to vote until 1953.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024