Sentence examples for apogee as from inspiring English sources

The novel sensation reached its apogee as I took a train out of London, heading southwest, after the water polo.

Her new show (or should we call it a "hear"?) reflects the "apogee," as she put it, that sound art has now reached.

In that year the furniture manufacturer Charles Baudouine bought the corner house, and during his time the area was nearing its apogee as a residential address.

But on the whole, as the century drew to a close, French children might have been better served, even though one critic sees the apogee as occurring between 1860 and 1900.

Hanks and Roberts have to make do with James Newton Howard, whose grating music reaches its intrusive apogee as Larry, after a first kiss with Ms. Tainot, dances in glee outside her front door — all that old Hanksian elasticity, freshly smothered by the soft-rock perkiness of the score.

At a time when coconut was reaching its apogee as the most important source of vegetable oil in international trade, five alternative germination options listed in a monograph (Menon and Pandalai 1958) were considered odd to the point of being defective.

In that, a lot is being asked of designer Es Devlin: "The Nether is the absolute apogee of coding – as near as damnit real," she says.

Córdoba reached its apogee then as the capital of the western caliphate — the largest and most cosmopolitan metropolis in Europe, with systems for running water and street lights, a multicultural population and vast libraries where Arabic, Latin and Greek manuscripts were preserved and translated, often by Jews learned in all three languages.

The butchery reached its apogee in July, with as many as 20,000, including women, children and the elderly, murdered.

The Moon appears only this large and bright when compared with a full moon near apogee, which is almost as rare as one near perigee and certainly not "usual".

At virtually the same moment, news was breaking that Representative Kevin Yoder, Republican of Kansas, had gone skinny-dipping in the Sea of Galilee last summer, the apogee of revelry as dozens of House Republican freshmen frolicked on a trip to Israel.