How To Use Zenith In A Sentence

The years 1899-1919 were the zenith of Elgar's creativity and success.
Mr.W. G. Harding -- unless he came to Zenith and electioneered for Babbitt
Even at its zenith in the mid-20th century, mink had few rivals, with only sable and the pelts of big cats bestowing anywhere near the same prestige.
The two-hour delay in starting that morning began to take on increasing significance as the sun reached its zenith without disclosing Petersburg on the horizon.
That oculomotor adjustment to a relatively near point induces micropsia for the zenith moon

He is even a member of a club called the Boosters, whose sole purpose is to celebrate and vaunt Zenith's virtues wherever possible. Books on Disgrace
After reaching its zenith in the mid-16th century, the Fugger banking empire was undermined by wars and the repeated bankruptcies of the Spanish state. In This Picturesque Village, the Rent Hasn't Been Raised Since 1520
Rather call the dusky and dark-haired Twilight, whose pensive face is limned against the western hills, by the name of that fierce and fervid Noon that stands erect under the hot zenith, instinct with the red blood of a thousand summers, casting her glittering tresses abroad upon the south-wind, and holding in her hands the all-unfolded rose of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
Temple also notes that the tradition of making films about festivals, which reached its zenith in the early 1970s, has hardly produced a string of cinematic masterpieces.
Halfway through the set, McCracken's antics reached a zenith when he performed a drum roll-accompanied backflip ‘just for Toronto.’
Opera reached its zenith at the turn of the century.
I always thought he was the apogee of untrendy, the zenith of non-cool.
He lay there for six or seven shortening gasps, while a star, lonely in its solitude, brightened at his zenith. COLDHEART CANYON
It glowed like a muffled torch and stretched upward to a dizzy height toward the zenith. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
The Zenith's engines powered up for the first time as the ship cleared the shipyard that built it.
The Roman Empire reached its zenith around the year 100.
At its zenith, there were 23 provinces ( "satrapies") under its administration and rule. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
Farther back, the 18th-century represented a zenith for anonymous slights, with scurrilous pamphlets known as "libels" keeping Pope and Swift in enemies for years. Top stories from Times Online
It was in the year 711 that the Moor first landed in Spain, and, setting up the Crescent against the Cross, he had in a short time established himself and almost conquered the Land that had withstood Rome at the zenith of her power; but the Visigoth was a sturdy stock and in the mountain sections he withstood the new invader and maintained himself. The Old Dominion
It was during this stage that the physical sciences reached something of a zenith under capitalist production relations. The Making of Neoclassical Economics
Famed for it's melodic lushed spaced-out Electronica, this is the album that captured keyboard maestro Jarre at his zenith. AvaxHome RSS:
The second world war represented the zenith of her career, but also led to her inexorable decline. Times, Sunday Times
In the zenith was a white lustre which obliterated distinction of form as much as did the cloudy obscurity at the end of the room. Idolatry A Romance
But 1969 would prove to be the zenith of mortar boards and graduation gowns.
Notwithstanding all exaggeration, Lylly was really a man of wit and imagination, though both were deformed by the most unnatural affectation that ever disgraced a printed page.] -- he, in short, who wrote that singularly coxcomical work, called _Euphues and his England_, was in the very zenith of his absurdity and his reputation. The Monastery
Emperors, that unguentaria reached its zenith, and shall it not be in The Works of Max Beerbohm
As the distance from the horizon to the zenith is 90°, the difference, or _complement_ of the altitude, is called the _zenith distance_, or _co-altitude_. Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882
Hubbert calculated this with accuracy for the US, pinpointing the 1970s as the zenith of production.
This two-fold maneuver had mixed results: The new name was successful and its friendly logo became instantly pronounceable and familiar all around the world, but Zenith never regained its past glory.
This communication deals with the latitude correlation between variations of local zenith airglow and ionospheric data for typical winter and early summer nights.
At midnight she will be in perigee, that is, at her shortest distance from the earth, and at the same moment she will be crossing the zenith. From the Earth to the Moon
He had reached his zenith, I suppose: had begun to fossilise, as men do when they cease to grow. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
It was a goal worthy of George Best at his zenith.
The conflict's roots date back to the zenith of the British raj.
This is the zenith of engineering achievement.
These spiky-haired punkers have really hit their zenith.
The sun reached its zenith and fell steeply on the western side, and they did not notice.
At its zenith a few years ago it employed 330,000 people in well-paid jobs. The Sun
Direct irradiance was attenuated as described by Beer's law, with the optical path length increasing approximately as the secant of the solar zenith angle.
Hardingunless he came to Zenith and electioneered for Lucas Prout. Chapter 14
With hindsight it can be seen that by the turn of the century the European world empires had reached their zenith. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
The quintessential ultramarathoner, Karnazes takes exquisite joy from the fundamental act of the sport he describes as the zenith of endurance.
Some day for us shall come into that blank sky-horizon which is called the zenith, a stranger, a man or a god, perhaps not like ourselves, yet having affinities with ourselves, and correlating ourselves to some family of men or gods of which we are all lost children. A Tramp's Sketches
At its zenith the Roman empire covered almost the whole of Europe.
If technology is the height of modernity, nuclear technology must be considered the zenith of that technology and its highest manifestation.
A point on the celestial sphere directly below the observer, diametrically opposite the zenith.
The sky from the earth to the zenith was a vast expanse of illuminated smoke, and the black landscape round about was cut by rivulets of molten lava rolling on and on like restless streams of quicksilver. The Changing Sun
In the 1860s, Tolstoy was at the zenith of his achievement.
At that time the Holy Roman Empire was at the zenith of its power.
After the examples are analyzed, there are problems which need to be solved such as ambiguity, real-time clock bias error and the estimate method of zenith wet delay.
Just as it reached its zenith it caught the very top of the very last tree and dropped like a stone into the creek below. For Love or Money
The most favourable conditions for a total eclipse are when the Moon is at its perigee, Earth is farthest from the Sun (around July) and when the Sun is observed near zenith.
Note that the air mass is approximately equal to the secant of the zenith angle (that angle from directly overhead to a line intersecting the sun).
His ideas seem to have this lasting resonance on new listeners as well as old, and this album represents The Doors at their creative zenith, brutal and untempered, eclectic and mysterious, unique and visionary.
John Johnson, Queen Elizabeth's favourite lutenist, died in 1594, when the Golden Age school of lutenists was at its zenith.
This dissenting tradition reached its zenith during in the English Revolution of the 1640's where the Levellers played a major role in Cromwell's New Model Army, advocating very radical ideas.
The connection between archaeology and patriotism reached its zenith around this time. WALKING THE BIBLE
A new method utilizing zenith observing to calibrate star sensor was proposed.
This a calculation the local sun zenith and azimuth angle program.
He took Angevin power to its zenith and made himself overlord of Ireland with a campaign in 1171, gaining the loyalty of important Irish rulers and establishing Normans as his lieges in Leinster.
It was unlike any other Olympics yet staged and represents the zenith of Olympic excess. Times, Sunday Times
At its zenith the Roman empire covered almost the whole of Europe.
All may be lost, except for a certain albino named Zenith ... Superhero Prose Fiction: Seaton Begg - The Metatemporal Detective 11 - The Flaneur des Arcades de l'Opera
Their reverence reaches its zenith here at the birthplace of the country's founder.
The Mercator projection and the Zenithal Equal-area projection are shown in the form of screen dumps in Figure 4.7.
He had known the Great Man at his zenith; he had wrestled with him in the hour of discomfiture; he had preached for his benefit that famous sermon on the text: ` Hide Thy Face from my sins, and blot out all my Iniquities '; he had witnessed the hero's awful progress from Newgate to Tyburn; he had seen him shiver at the nubbing-cheat; he had composed for him a last dying speech, which did not shame the king of thief-takers, and whose sale brought a comfortable profit to the widow. A Book of Scoundrels
The zenith of stability when shooting is going to be prone, using a gun mount and gyrostabilisers to reduce recoil.
Ers, Mores and Merkery are surgents below the rim of the Zenith Part while Arctura, Anatolia, Hesper and Mesembria weep in their mansions over Noth, Haste, Soot and Waste. — Finnegans Wake
American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
It was, of course, the zenith of the internet boom, but also a false dawn.
Malevich was represented by iconic Suprematist abstractions and by less familiar works that preceded and followed his brief zenith.
Well, not literally -- but I was gazing at a fat Zenith with wooden legs when he mimed "I Wanna Be Your Lover" on American Bandstand in 1980, then peculiarly told Dick Clark he played "a thousand" instruments. Gregory Weinkauf: Happy Birthday to Prince!
Would I opt to be 20, at the zenith of my physical and mental powers?
It may be in the fall, though, that this place reaches its zenith.
He had known the Great Man at his zenith; he had wrestled with him in the hour of discomfiture; he had preached for his benefit that famous sermon on the text: 'Hide Thy Face from my sins, and blot out all my Iniquities'; he had witnessed the hero's awful progress from Newgate to Tyburn; he had seen him shiver at the nubbing-cheat; he had composed for him a last dying speech, which did not shame the king of thief-takers, and whose sale brought a comfortable profit to the widow. A Book of Scoundrels
Zenith the Great will continue to destroy evil with his super critical hits!
The art of ornamentation may be said to have been at its zenith between the 16th and 19th centuries, when it was regarded as essential to virtuoso technique.
Edwin is approaching his zenith as overking of the Angles. Editor's Choice
The nervous loquacity and opinionation of the Zenith Athletic Club dropped from them.
Ivars needs help with a Hobson or a Zenith carburettor, correct camshaft timing and much more.
Carson chose to let Tonight stand as his career zenith and his finale, withdrawing into a quiet retirement that suited his private nature and refusing involvement in other show business projects.
All are fully-steerable altazimuth telescopes capable of pointing and tracking over zenith angles from 1 to 60 degrees.
As Faramix, we are calling out for the press 'attention to perform previews, reviews, or interviews on CellZenith in order to help get the title exposure for the growing company. SPAWNPOINT.COM - Gaming News Feed
If I should venture, in a windy day, to affirm to your Highness that there is a large cloud near the horizon in the form of a bear, another in the zenith with the head of an ass, a third to the westward with claws like a dragon; and your Highness should in a few minutes think fit to examine the truth, it is certain they would be all chanced in figure and position, new ones would arise, and all we could agree upon would be, that clouds there were, but that I was grossly mistaken in the zoography and topography of them. A Tale of a Tub
Since altazimuth telescope mounts usually have a limit in their ability to track high elevation passes through culmination, especially at near-zenith transits because of the large azimuth swings required, the mount can start falling behind.
At last they stopped to eat and rest again, as the sun reached its zenith high above.
The sun reaches its zenith at midday.
The whole of the western sky right up to the zenith was a finely shaded study in brilliant orange and yellow. The Wonder
Elementary German language school enrollments reached their zenith between 1880 and 1900.
The Roman Empire reached its zenith around the year 100.
This dissenting tradition reached its zenith during in the English Revolution of the 1640's where the Levellers played a major role in Cromwell's New Model Army, advocating very radical ideas.
She is in her physical prime and at the zenith of her fortunes.
All cannot be happy at once; for, because the glory of one state depends upon the ruin of another, there is a revolution and vicissitude of their greatness, and must obey the swing of that wheel, not moved by intelligencies, but by the hand of God, whereby all estates arise to their zenith and vertical points, according to their predestinated periods. Religio Medici
‘Hardtack’, as the soldiers called this, represented the zenith of comestible durability and the nadir of taste.
YouTube, that incandescent tower of video Babel; monument to the sloughed-off detritus of our exponentially-exploding digital culture; a Technicolor cataract of skateboarding dogs, lip-synching college students, political punditry, and porn; has reached the zenith of its meteoric rise; and Icarus-like, wings melting; is spiraling back to earth. P2pnet World Headlines – April 9, 2009
Atmospheric reflectance principally varies with dust concentration, the zenith angle of the Sun, and the type and/or amount of cloud cover. Albedo
Well! whenever the moon is in a favorable condition as to the zenith, if not to the perigee, that is to say about once a year, could you not send us a shell packed with provisions, which we might expect on some appointed day?” From the Earth to the Moon
The whole affair was a very easygoing business; people kept eating and drinking, and, when the sun reached the zenith, they fell into a snooze where they sat.
It reached the zenith of its glory.
By 1946, Still had developed his signature style, and the next two galleries show this work, what Mr. Sobel calls the zenith of his career. Still's Stalwart
It glowed like a muffled torch and stretched upward to a dizzy height toward the zenith. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
The trend for manufacturers offering extras has surely reached its zenith with the launch of the Vauxhall Adam city car. Times, Sunday Times
Astronomy A point on the celestial sphere directly below the observer diametrically opposite the zenith.
The zenith was a deep blue, darkening opposite the setting sun, and paling over it into a peach colour, and that again near the horizon passing into a glowing orange-red, crossed by coppery streaks of cirrhus. Himalayan Journals — Complete
The motets, however, represent the zenith of Brahms's contrapuntal art.
Changes in architectural style and building technology brought brownstone to its zenith and nadir in a very short period of time.
It was a remarkable summer, the brief zenith of hippydom. Times, Sunday Times
Once the sun reached its zenith, it was too hot to even move, let alone travel.
Mars' rise is very close to sunset / nightfall and its zenith will be just after midnight.
You realize that this moment represents the zenith of your success.
But he clasped both his hands over his breast, and cast his eyes towards the zenith.
The sun was climbing to its zenith, not yet noon, reflecting its light on the beautiful white washed walls of the buildings.
It is not for nothing that Zenith is in matters social rapidly becoming known as the choosiest inland city in the country. Babbit
They saw it now rise like a pigmy moon and climb zenithward and hang overhead and sink westward with the passing of the night.
His publicity campaign reached its zenith when he was summoned to an audience with the royal family. Christianity Today
These objects reversed direction several times but maintained position in the sky more or less at the zenith.
He had faith; he was certain that if Lincoln were alive, he would be electioneering for Mr.W. G. Harding — unless he came to Zenith and electioneered for Lucas Prout. Babbit
The specific type of research which characterized organic chemistry during the final decennia of the century that has just closed attained its zenith of development and its finest form in Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902 - Presentation Speech
It is with the porcupines, however, that the spiny defensive system reaches its zenith.
The sky was a bright, cloudless azure, and the sun was pinned high and motionless and brilliant upon its zenith.
At the zenith the trigram IHS appears, surrounded by saints and angels on zigzag over-solid clouds.
A smaller chain of mountains, nowhere near as tall as Zenith ran along the outer rim of the rain forest of the northern territory, separating the land of the lizards from the rest of Darikoth to the south.
Night withdrew to the eastern edges of the heavens; the sky to the zenith was a glistening orange, blurred with shadowy up-rollings of smoke, along the city's crest the torn flame ribbons playing like northern lights. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California
The method needs data collected from two satellites, one close to zenith and the other in the direction of horizon.
In the early 1980s the company was at its zenith.
The center of the map is the zenith, the point in the sky directly overhead.
At the same time the evidence is conclusive that the madrigal was acquiring general popularity as a form of dramatic music, and the madrigal drama reached the zenith of its glory at the very moment when its fate was preparing in the experiments of Galilei and others in the new monodic style destined to become the basis of modern Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
Maretzek, fell in the period when Barnumism was at its zenith, and Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
He had faith; he was certain that if Lincoln were alive, he would be electioneering for Mr.W. G. Harding -- unless he came to Zenith and electioneered for Lucas Prout. Babbitt
Paradoxical as it may seem, such a man, to my mind, is in the same position as one at the zenith of success.
The canonic writing explored by all eight choral movements reaches a zenith of complexity here: a truly thrilling excursion. Times, Sunday Times
Its transcendental aspirations -- still unconsciously based on the geocentric view of things, a zenithal paradise, a nadiral hell -- were as foreign to his own as if they had been the dreams of people on another planet. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Fragile's most elegant zeniths - "La Mer" and "Just Like You Imagined" - the songs scrape and lull, spanning toothy pop (Track 16); droning interludes (2); Eighties homages (24); the wankerish, disposable digital noise from the remix albums (7); and mostly, cinematic scenes that turn your earbuds into a personal transport system to charred landscapes beneath a gray sky. Miami New Times | Complete Issue
What we have is simple slasher fun at it’s zenith, I’m absolutely convinced that the pickaxe is the ideal weapon for a 3-D horror. MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D : Hell Yeah! | Obsessed With Film
The re-centralization of power and control and expansion of a statist system with integrated and cooperative corporatist technocracies to enhance and insure the expansion of a singular party's control is the fantasy of many a dictator and we might have reached that zenith in history just now. Southern Maryland Community Forums
Rossini was at the zenith of his career: the London papers referred to him as ‘the first composer of the day‘.
For me, music is the zenith in our life, the unreachable zenith.
We are not intended to reach the zenith of human potential as envisioned by secular humanists.
The tragedy will no doubt reach its terrible zenith in next week's final episode. Times, Sunday Times
Your actual position on the earth will be projected in a point called your zenith, i.e., the point directly overhead. Lectures in Navigation
They were also sceptical about the World Council of Churches, then at its zenith of influence, and they began to preach God's free grace from their pulpits.
These spiky-haired punkers have really hit their zenith.
Negative view zenith angles correspond to the backscattering direction.
It consisted of a collar of rope set lower at one side than at the other (but that had been before the mast had steeved so many degrees away from the zenith), and tallowed beneath. Widdershins
+ While the Byzantine Empire was at its zenith, the new faith of Islam was conquering Western Asia and the Mediterranean lands with a fiery rapidity, which is one of the marvels of history. A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
Is it simply the love of adventure that beckons them towards these pristine ice clad peaks and spires, at times crossing the barren icy wastelands to reach the zenith of tranquility and peace the mountains offer?
The Chinese jute growing and manufacturing industry reached its zenith in 1985.
That's lazy writing at its zenith, which is reason #5: Conservatives think we're stupid and won't notice. Jim David: Kathy Griffin, and Why Conservatives Aren't Funny
Athens reached its zenith during the fifth century B.C., a period known as its Golden Age.
Series of profound innovations pushed Canadian public education to the zenith of prosperity, and also to the riffle of difficulties.
Zenith did not refer to Acme's program further than this and Zenith developed its own methods of performing the purpose.
Then you get to your hotel and your adrenaline is at its zenith and you can't fall asleep. Archive: Michael in the mirror
I'd been sniped. Someone, or rather their automated bidding software, had swooped in, in the last few seconds, and scooped the Zenith for only the least allowable increment over my bid.
The sensational panoramic Zenith windscreen, which is 36% bigger than a conventional screen on an average five door small car, delivers an all-new motoring experience for drivers and passengers alike. Autoblog
Then drawn perhaps by my gaze, she dropped her eyes upon me; golden, translucent, with tiny flecks of amber in their aureate irises, the soul that looked through them was as far removed from that flaming out of the priestess as zenith is above nadir. The Moon Pool
Until a team reach the zenith, the quality of performance has to be the barometer by which they are measured. Times, Sunday Times
But the only zones of the globe in which the moon passes the zenith, that is, the point directly over the head of the spectator, are of necessity comprised between the twenty-eighth parallels and the equator. From the Earth to the Moon
It glowed like a muffled torch and stretched upward to a dizzy height toward the zenith. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
Even at its zenith in the mid-20th century, mink had few rivals, with only sable and the pelts of big cats bestowing anywhere near the same prestige.
With a quick jerk, cataleptically, his nose pointed to the zenith, his mouth opened, and a flood of sound poured forth, running swiftly upward in crescendo and slowly falling as it died away. CHAPTER XXII
The Candracchayaganita is written in thirty-one Sanskrit verses and explains the computational methods used to calculate the moon's zenith distance.
He cites 15 years of biology fieldwork in the rainforests of Central America as his educational zenith.

How To Use Zenith In A Sentence

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