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How to use summit in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Summit means the highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature. Example: “In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta.”

Examples of summit by meaning

nounThe highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.

  • In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta.

nounThe highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.

  • Learning from others as from himself, he reached the summit of his development with his latest work.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 153

nounAn assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely)...

  • They met for an international summit on environmental issues.

verbTo reach the summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1) of (a mountain).

  • Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited.2012 July–August, Kenza Moller, “Eyes on the North”, in Canadian Geographic, volume 132, number 4, Ottawa: Royal Canadian Geographical...

verbTo attend a summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.2.2).

  • The President had been summiting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna.2001, Robert V. Heffernan, Cabinetmakers: Story of the Three-year Battle to Establish the U.S. Department of Education, page 439

More sentences with summit

  • Some real breakthroughs were made at the summit, but only far from the official diplomatic table.From the entry table
  • The first trek to the summit of Mount Everest was a stunning exploit.From the entry exploit
  • We were all out of breath when we got to the summit.From the entry out of breath
  • Because we got to the summit of the mountain, we could only go downhill from there.From the entry downhill
  • Most of us first found out when we heard the readout from the summit meeting.From the entry readout
  • She posted a quick video selfie to her story to show everyone the view from the summit.From the entry video selfie
  • We were all gasping when we reached the summit.From the entry gasp
  • The summit of Everest is 5.5 miles above sea level.From the entry sea level
  • An anniversary summit in Washington in July is sure to trumpet a nearly eight-decade record of success.2024 April 2, Howard LaFranchi, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “NATO has united the West for 75 years. Here’s why it still matters.”, in The…. From the entry trumpet
  • Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets executives of major global chipmakers ahead of a G7 summit.2023 May 18, Reuters, “Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow”, in CNN Business. From the entry chipmaker
  • But the summit will also show the limits of what a heterogeneous “global south” can achieve.2023 November 13, John McDermott, “The BRICS are expanding”, in The Economist, →ISSN. From the entry global south
  • Users can see how a glacier at the summit of Mt.2022 April 22, Toyin Owoseje, “Google marks Earth Day with doodle showing stark impacts of the climate crisis”, in CNN, archived from the…. From the entry Tanzania
  • However, as the principal UK policymaker and the Cop26 president, the PM should have led the summit.2022 October 30, Fiona Harvey, quoting Carlos Fuller, “Global anger at Sunak’s Cop27 snub that raises fears over UK’s climate crisis…. From the entry fray
  • Zelensky has dialed into the World Economic Forum in Davos and the NATO summit in Madrid.December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023. From the entry dial into
  • More people have been to outer space than have stood its summit.2021 January 19, Adam Skolnick, Bhadra Sharma, “How Climbers Reached the Summit of K2 in Winter for the First Time”, in The New York…. From the entry K2
  • Greta Thunberg has blasted politicians as hypocrites and international climate summits as empty words and greenwash.2020 November 9, Damian Carrington, “‘Hypocrites and greenwash’: Greta Thunberg blasts leaders over climate crisis”, in the Guardian…. From the entry greenwash
  • A surge of moisture moving will produce a wintry mix over the Big Island summits through today.2020 December 18, National Weather Service, 335 AM HST Winter Weather Advisory. From the entry snow level
  • The death grip, summit disease, these are extended characteristics of the fungus, part of its extended phenotype.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, “Mycelial Minds”, in Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, London…. From the entry summit disease
  • In September, world leaders will gather in New York for a climate action summit.2019 August 30, Jonathan Watts, “Amazon fires show world heading for point of no return, says UN”, in The Guardian. From the entry increasing
  • You think a selfie from the summit of Makalu is gonna get Everest-levels of Instagram love?2019 June 24, John Oliver, 18:15 from the start, in Everest: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO. From the entry Makalu
  • "Wizard Whiterage was supposed to meet us at the summit of Doom at starfall,” said Zephyr.2017, Antonia Rapheal, The Chronicles of Arcanilius: Origin Stories. From the entry starfall
  • Now that we were so close on Kilimanjaro, summit fever was taking me again.2010, Daniel Dorr, Kissing Kilimanjaro:Leaving it All on Top of Africa, →ISBN. From the entry summit fever
  • The first miniature golf course was laid out on the summit of Lookout Mountain.2010, Paul Donnelley, Firsts, Lasts & Onlys of Golf, →ISBN. From the entry midget golf
  • Eventually we rounded more crossbacks and started to see various summits.2007, Damara Paris, Hilary White, Miriam Richards, High Point of Persistence, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry crossback
  • In early July, I returned to Europe for the G-7 summit in Naples.2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 185. From the entry Latvia
  • Climbers a century ago had a globeful of far-flung, virgin summits for the pickings.2004 October 5, Jenny Dubin, “Serial summit disorder”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN…. From the entry globeful
  • We reached the summit at 12:45 p.m., with Greg and Nate suffering the most.2003 October 16, John Wilson, “Mt. Whitney in a day”, in Daily Pilot. From the entry ibuprofen
  • O'Reilly, the summit host, remembers a particularly insightful comment from Torvalds, a summit attendee.2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, chapter 11. From the entry attendee
  • What is there on the summit of K2, that would entice a climber to risk everything?2001, Heidi Howkins, K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page v. From the entry K2
  • It is the summit of copy protection, an explicit melding of software and hardware.1997 April 1, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired, →ISSN. From the entry dongle
  • In a summit conference the nay-saver is in a position to prevent what his allies desire.1966, Raymond Aron, Peace and war: a theory of international relations. From the entry Polish parliament
  • After Ashby summit it was difficult to spin out the more than ample schedule allowance.1941 October, “Notes and News: L.N.E.R. Locomotive Performance in War Conditions”, in Railway Magazine, page 473. From the entry spin out
  • The way to reach the summit was therefore now getting very much clearer.1926, Francis Younghusband, The Epic of Mount Everest, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 65. From the entry North Col
  • From the North Col to the summit the way was clear.1926, Francis Younghusband, The Epic of Mount Everest, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 65. From the entry North Col
  • Elleber Ridge; summit between Elleber Run and Tackey Fork in Pocahontas County.1904, Henry Gannett, A Gazetteer of Virginia and West Virginia, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry elleber

Meaning of summit

  1. noun The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.
  2. noun A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.
  3. noun The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.

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Questions about summit in a sentence

How do you use summit in a sentence?
Summit is used as a noun and verb. For example: “In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta.”
What is a short sentence with summit?
“They met for an international summit on environmental issues.”
What does summit mean?
Summit means the highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.

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