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crowning

[ UK /kɹˈa‍ʊnɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹaʊnɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment
    the crowning accomplishment of his career
  2. forming or providing a crown or summit
    the crowning star on a Christmas tree
    her hair was her crowning glory

How To Use crowning In A Sentence

  • But, fortunately, there were cavities in the two teeth on either side of the gap -- one in the first molar and one in the palatine surface of the cuspid; might he not drill a socket in the remaining root and sockets in the molar and cuspid, and, partly by bridging, partly by crowning, fill in the gap? McTeague
  • The cathedral is the crowning glory of the city.
  • It completed her expression; it was as a very halo of Yankee saintship crowning the woman who in despite of poverty and every discouragement had always hated, to the very roots of her hair, anything like what she called a "sozzle;" who had always been screwed up and sharp set to hard work. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.
  • Then the crowning jewel is that OHSU gets ONE dollar of every TWO dollars lobbied from the federal government to put into their own coffers per the SoWhat Agreement. SoWhat goes underground (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • Her crowning glory is her hair.
  • ‘I never want to look back on an album and think that that was the crowning moment and that everything has been downhill from there,’ adds Adrian.
  • This film is without question the director's crowning moment.
  • It was an easy labour and, within five hours, Filipa was fully dilated and the baby's head was crowning.
  • They polished him off by crowning him with a Coca-Cola bottle.
  • Her golden-brown shining hair waved back from a side parting with that carefully contrived artlessness which is the crowning achievement of a coiffeur, and in colour it exactly matched her soft frock, which was of the sports variety with a finely pleated skirt. Juggernaut
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