How to Use culminate in a Sentence

culminate

verb
  • A bitter feud culminated months of tension.
  • The chain of events culminated in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2024
  • All of it, of course, culminates in the grandest night of them all: the Academy Awards.
    Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The event sparked a lifetime of activism, culminating in his role in the march.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The event will culminate in a champagne toast at midnight to ring in 2023.
    Megan Becka, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The Cowboys got a field goal a few plays later to culminate a 10-play, 60-yard drive.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The events of this day, culminating in her suicide, frame the miniseries.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 20 June 2024
  • Ash Wednesday marks the start of the 40-day Lenten season that culminates with Easter.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
  • But years of entreaties failed to culminate in a meeting.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The love of the two would culminate in a proposal at the gorgeous Hillwood Estate in D.C.
    Essence, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The show culminated with Jon shouting out a string of moves — the A-Town stomp, the muscle, the thunder clap, the rockaway — as more dancers flooded the stage.
    Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The day will culminate at dusk with a fireworks display.
    cleveland, 4 Aug. 2021
  • His essay positioned the site as the start of an era that would culminate in the 2016 election of Donald Trump.
    Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The film culminates in an epic fight scene between you and Daniel Wu, an icon of Hong Kong cinema.
    Max Gao, IndieWire, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The triple feature will culminate with a Q&A with Shatner.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The videos always culminate in a nearly too-quick shot of the unwrapped item purchased.
    Rachel Besser, Vogue, 17 Dec. 2024
  • To help recharge and recover, Sam would take naps and culminate a day's work with yoga.
    Christopher Brito, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The videos always culminate at a nearly too-quick shot of the unwrapped item purchased.
    Rachel Besser, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The five sessions will culminate with a Rhythm ‘n’ Ruach Havdalah event at 7:45 p.m. on April 2.
    Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2022
  • These tests will culminate in a hot-fire test of the rocket's first-stage main engine, the Vulcain 2.1. Setting the table for a launch next year ...
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 July 2022
  • The play culminates with Snook in a blond pompadour, and in what almost resembles Elvis drag.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 May 2025
  • For the first time in its history, the event will culminate in a live broadcast of the final four categories.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The stellar show will culminate on April 30, when Venus and Jupiter put on a dazzling display of brightness.
    Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The battle royale will culminate in the fundraising walk, which has been held at Endicott since 2018.
    Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Line accounted for 57 of them, culminating in a 1-yard sneak for the tying score.
    Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Models strode around the perimeter of the pool, perching themselves on a red sculpture to culminate their walks.
    Rachel Besser, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The jury’s work typically culminates near the end of its term, with the release of reports throughout the spring.
    Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The tense meeting with the agents — two men and a woman — culminated in a back-and-forth on civil liberties.
    Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The movie culminates in a series of courtroom scenes in which a judge — and the audience — must weigh her potential guilt.
    Thomas Rogers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The morning of the wedding, Jeremiah and Conrad get into a fight over Belly, which culminates in Jeremiah punching his brother.
    Alexandra Hurtado, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025

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