Sentence examples for reached a crest from inspiring English sources

As a wave of Palestinian suicide bombings reached a crest in March 2002, Sharon began Israel's largest offensive since Lebanon, sending ground forces sweeping through the West Bank.

For all that, the dignified opening of this museum does mean that the road has reached a crest, from which we can peer towards a new horizon: not the promised land, to be sure, but certainly no longer an accursed land.

The Tanana River, which is not controlled by the flood project, meanwhile reached a crest of 26.60 feet at Fairbanks on the 30th.

Those tensions may reach a crest on Saturday.

"Blue Crush," a sort of "Gidget Goes Tubular," comes along just as surfing is reaching a crest of hype.

The rainfall caused the Schuylkill River to reach a crest peak of 12.89 ft (4 m) at Berne.

In terms of elevation, it reaches a crest of 644 feet at Upper Mountain Road in Pekin before it begins to descend the Niagara Escarpment, a beach ridge that further west led to the formation of Niagara Falls eons ago.

In this period, self-potential across the dam crest decreased rapidly, and the dam-crest settlement reached a peak value.

In Fishy Pool, the river reached a record crest of 15.53 m, surpassing the previous peak of 12.23 m in 1980.

Waynesboro, also within Augusta County, sustained $3 million in damages after the South River reached a record crest, damaging 213 homes and businesses.

The water was expected to rise another three feet by Friday morning, and reach a record crest, 12 feet higher than the previous record, set in 1851.