Sentence examples for the very height from inspiring English sources

Congress voted to withhold federal money in 1988, at the very height of the AIDS epidemic.

That response to public officials creating traffic jams is the very height of normality.

Just after their wedding, and at the very height of their success, disaster strikes.

Oddly, it is the very height of the Bouffes du Nord in Paris that makes it so intimate.

Her mother's death, she writes, "had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance.

So I dragged her to Glastonbury – essentially a boiling hellscape of faeces and mouldy food – at the very height of her morning sickness.

Reflecting the very height of exuberance and expectation, John Dowling, 69, a retired packaging foreman for Budweiser, only half-jokingly asked for a prescription for 1,000 pills.

Part of New York City's unique social ecology -- impersonal at times, strangely intimate at others -- derives from the very height of its buildings.

To my preadolescent eyes, the hand's elegant, poised fingers were the very height of sophistication: Faye Dunaway reaches for a Jordan almond.

But there was box office appeal, still: a wool coat whose hem had been dipped into glittering jet embroidery was the very height of chic.

That drove down the purchasing power of Argentines, who traditionally buy with cash at the very height of the holiday season.