Sentence examples for before the pinnacle from inspiring English sources

THE night before the pinnacle of his National Football League career, Roy Simmons was already a wreck.

There are many cases of youth athletes who peak before their time or simply burn out before reaching the pinnacle.

The strange thing is, Svindal considers the moments before he crashed the pinnacle of his ability.

What is poignant about Kennan's fate is that his parting came before he reached the pinnacle.

The parade, which takes place on the Sunday before Lent, is the pinnacle of a three-day feast.

Before she was the pinnacle of the put-together mom (and even after), she had a wild streak.

He is an Oxford-educated former financial journalist with The Guardian and The Economist, who reaped a fortune by founding and then selling a financial consultancy before setting out to reach the pinnacle of politics.

Zhou Yongkang was allegedly the most feared and powerful senior official before he retired two years ago from the pinnacle of China's decision-making body.

Which is why, instead of telling my date that blowing me off because she's still too drunk from the party she blew off our first date to go to the night before is the very pinnacle of disrespectful, I still said yes when she (finally) texted me.

The pinnacle of power had been attained not in Baghdad but long before, when the leaders decided to set out on this ill-starred military adventure.

Bohemond, who 30 years before had been a landless young man, now stood at the pinnacle of his career.