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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 show on Sunday will culminate days of parties across town at a time when a new variant of the illness is spreading across the region.
  — Anousha Sakouistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2022
• Your words, your ideas, your sleepless nights, and the smile that should be on your face —all culminating in someone else’s triumph.
  — Ebony Flake, Essence, 29 Jan. 2024
• For Vinecki, it was all supposed to culminate at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang.
  — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022
• As the tragedies and pain build, the brothers’ story culminates in a shocking act of brutality that changes the very landscape.
  — Justin Porter, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
• For decades, San Diego State’s spring football practice culminated with its spring game, an intrasquad scrimmage that whet the appetites of fans for the season to come.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025