acme

How To Use acme In A Sentence

• Her manner, reserved to the point of stiffness, and paralyzing, as it did, the glibbest masculine tongue among them, was also looked upon as the acme of perfection and all that was desirable in young ladyhood; each individual humbly admitting that while he never before had met a real lady, he knew one when he saw her. 'Me--Smith'
• Its acme of awfulness is a reconstruction of the watershed Brown-Blair summit at Prescott's Admiralty Arch flat in 2004. Archive 2007-02-01
• Are neatly-kept lawns the acme of suburban aspiration?
• McNab says the game has come to represent the acme of upmarket aspiration for the elite decision-makers of business, sports, finance, politics and showbiz.
• It is the acme of romanticism; I devoted most of a year's worth of high school study halls to it, along with all of the volumes of Dumas's Three Musketeers series, which I inherited from my grandmother.
• He first called for the creation of a world-wide currency, to be called "acmetal" _ a combination of "acme," a Greek word meaning the peak or the best, and "capital" _ in an article published last month. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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• Similarly, where the parts are set in motion towards each other they are known as travelling threads, i.e. acme threads (in the leadscrew of the lathe). 1. Purpose and importance of thread cutting by dies and taps
• The bride elect held her head very erect; the red spots in her cheeks glowed like double peonies; her two thin curls, done in oil for the occasion, hung straight and stiff like pendant icicles nigrescent; her sparkling black eyes looked apparently into vacuity, while they were really beholding the acme of all her hopes. Hubert's Wife A Story for You
• The following is a recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company.