Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use cusp in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Cusp means a sharp point or pointed end. Example: “The nearby and much bigger Horton quarry is also on the cusp of rail reconnection.”

Examples of cusp by meaning

nounA point of transition.

  • The nearby and much bigger Horton quarry is also on the cusp of rail reconnection.2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 40

More sentences with cusp

  • “They’re on the cusp of Gen Z and millennial, thus the mash-up label of zillennial.”2023 May 10, Terry Ward, “Zillennials: The newest micro-generation has a name”, in CNN. From the entry cohort
  • Isabel and Nicki Hoffman, the two new dolls (twins!) are Seattleites on the cusp of Y2K.2023 March 5, Maura Judkis, “American Girl says ’90s are ancient history; girls agree”, in The Herald-Sun, pages 1C and 3C. From the entry Y2K
  • Are we on the cusp of some kind of profound transformation of the human condition?2009, David Loy, Awareness bound and unbound: Buddhist essays, page 77. From the entry cyberenvironment
  • Dens in dente, peg-shaped lateral incisors, microdontia, megadontia, fusion, gemination and connation, talon cusp, taurodontism, etc.2008, R. A. Cawson, E. W. Odell, Cawson's Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, 8th edition, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone…. From the entry megadontia
  • Blood flowing the wrong way makes the cusps balloon out so that their edges seal tight.2005, “Section 2: Heart”, in The Facts on File Illustrated Guide to the Human Body: Heart and Circulatory System, New York, N.Y.: Facts on…. From the entry heartstrings
  • We are the virtual dispossessed, cybernetic nomads on the cusp of searching for a niche for ourselves.2000, Kevin J. Cheek, “[PLAQUE]: BIX - Byte Information Exchange [LONG]”, in alt.callahans (Usenet). From the entry BIXen
  • When the patient bruxes, he uses his supporting cusps to wear away the restraining inclines.1976, Norman R. Arnold, Occlusal Treatment: Preventive and Corrective Occlusal Adjustment. From the entry brux
  • Women who try too hard to be one of the boys ain’t my thing, I realized on the cusp of mid-life.2015 August 5, Barry F. Schnell, chapter 4, in Coccyx Cousins, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry girly
  • Here is where the cusp of your tooth should be.2015, Harvey Passes, Profiles in Dental Courage: How to Completely Overcome Your Fear of the Dentist, Success, Ltd., →ISBN, page 59. From the entry oh, my gosh
  • The 8:00 line is the cusp of the 2nd house.1995, Estelle Daniels, Astrologickal Magick, Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry widdershins
  • Now, we’re just months away from the first Generation Beta babies — and firmly on the cusp of a new era of baby naming.2024 February 2, Lizzy Francis, “The Future Of Baby Naming Is Here, And It's Genderless”, in Tyghe Trimble, editor, Fatherly, New York…. From the entry Generation Beta
  • As summer looms, many Americans — college students, retirees and others who stand at the cusp of life changes — will make similar choices in search of transformational experiences.2014 April 21, Rafia Zakaria, “The white tourist’s burden”, in Al Jazeera America. From the entry voluntourism
  • It was coming up on the cusp of July and August, and he remembered boyhood summers on the mountain's slopes abuzz with blackflies and syrupy heat.2005 June, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN; 1st trade paperback edition, New…. From the entry abuzz
  • And it does have cusps on its mandibles, it has no little tool kit, no curriculum or pollen basket to carry pollen back to the nest.2005 June 17, “Interview: Keith Delaplane and Stephen Buchmann discuss the health of bee populations around the world”, in Science Friday…. From the entry vulture bee
  • Anything that may hinder the proposed landing (e.g., cusps, submerged rocks, partially awash or submerged wrecks, scullies, berm scarps, sandbars, rails, etc.) may be considered an obstacle.1974, US Navy SEAL Combat Manual. From the entry man-made
  • Was sitting on a molar cusp nibbling a remnant of dry toast, when I looked out and saw a white-coated man with a shiney instrument in his hand.1908, The Practical Dental Journal, page 2. From the entry coated
  • In the lingualized type of occlusion, contact of the lingual cusps of the uppers against the semianatomic teeth on the lowers will be seen in lateral, protrusive, and eccentric movements.2009, Arun K. Garg, Implant Dentistry, page 165. From the entry upper

Meaning of cusp

  1. noun A sharp point or pointed end.
  2. noun An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
  3. noun A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.

Full definition of cusp

Questions about cusp in a sentence

How do you use cusp in a sentence?
Cusp is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The nearby and much bigger Horton quarry is also on the cusp of rail reconnection.”
What is a short sentence with cusp?
“Here is where the cusp of your tooth should be.”
What does cusp mean?
Cusp means a sharp point or pointed end.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cusp (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use cusp in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/cusp. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.