How to Use peak in a Sentence

peak

1 of 3 noun

• The recipe says to beat the cream until it forms soft peaks.
• At her peak she was writing a new novel every year.
• Violence reached a peak just before the election.
• The graph shows that murders in the city declined from a peak of 173 in 2004.
• Great views of the peaks can be seen by heading left at the junction.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• The year-over-year figure is down sharply from a 7% peak last June but far above the Fed's 2% target.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
• Eleven rate hikes by the Fed have helped send inflation tumbling from its peak over the past year and a half.
  — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
• So, the short-term, peak noise that happens isn't accounted for.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• Since reaching its peak in the 1990s, overall crime in the United States has declined.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
• That was the case for Zsolt, who bought his boat from a couple who raced during the ’80s and ’90s, the era considered the racing peak within the club.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2023
• Wear long sleeves and pants during peak mosquito hours – dawn and dusk.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 4 Aug. 2023
• Tucked between the jagged basalt peaks and moraines is No Name Lake, a turquoise gem popping out from the surrounding black rock.
  — Haley Nelson | , oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
• Go at peak traffic time and step back behind their landscape plants.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2024
• Inflation rose to more than 41 percent at its peak this spring.
  — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The mid-to-late ’70s were a peak period for television’s impact on the Billboard charts.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2024
• The earlier round of protests reached its peak in January 2021.
  — Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Day after day of unseasonable heat drove the cherry trees to reach peak bloom on March 17.
  — Harry Stevens, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• That corresponds with a peak in ocean temperatures in the area.
  — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
• The four weeks in the survey also includes Cinco de Mayo, a peak sales event for Mexican lagers.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 14 June 2023
• When To Buy Summer products often go on sale in the off-season, so look for deals as peak beach season nears a close.
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
• The trail will lead you past cascades flowing off the peaks of Mount Diablo over the course of a moderate 5.1-mile circuit.
  — Jenna Scatena, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
• What’s most important is to do it at peak energy time, which for me is midafternoon.
  — Nancy A. Ruhling, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
• The team also saw the cicadas’ peak frequency varying between 1.2 kHz and 1.5 kHz.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2023
• While the eastside docks will be open, the agency urged patience as backups are likely during peak hours.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2023
• But since reaching a peak of 9.1 per cent, in June of last year, inflation has fallen by almost two-thirds.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• In the peak years of his power, most of the coverage in the mainstream media was little short of adulatory.
  — Thomas W. Lippman, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• The new study is the first to show that birds’ vocal muscles require exercise to achieve peak performance, the authors say.
  — Olivia Ferrari, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2023
• If finding indoor shelter is not an option: • Avoid open fields, hill peaks, or ridge tops.
  — Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Mar. 2024
• Adding to its woes, its rapid expansion in different parts of the world during the peak of its success made matters worse.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 16 Apr. 2024
• After rising in July, new home starts dropped in August as mortgage rates climbed back to their late 2022 peak.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023

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peak

2 of 3 verb

• The song was a hit, and peaked at #25 on the Billboard chart of the hottest songs in the U.S.
  — TIME, 6 Feb. 2024
• The stock market peaked a few months later, in March 2000.
  — The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2024
• Winds blow from the northwest up to 20 mph, with gusts peaking around 30 mph.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• The stock has lost about two-thirds of its value since peaking in 2013.
  — Flavia Rotondi, Fortune Europe, 12 Feb. 2024
• The song, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, was written and produced by James.
  — Ralphie Aversa, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
• The first full moon of the year, known as the Wolf Moon, will appear on Wednesday night and will peak on Thursday.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2024
• By that point, the U.A.W.’s membership had peaked, at one and a half million.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• The eclipse will peak at 11:11 a.m., when the sun will appear as an upside-down crescent.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
• More friends joined the rotation as the evening went on, of course peaking with sunset.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• The latter also peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Global 200.
  — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 29 Dec. 2023
• However, Mizuho says that the worst for gilts is likely over as the Bank of England’s base rate looks to have peaked.
  — WSJ, 18 Dec. 2023
• Despite those big wins, Hot Pink only peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 200.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
• Deutsche’s analysts said the wave would not peak until late 2024.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 1 June 2023
• The defense is peaking at the right time The season opener offered a glimpse of what was to come for Houston.
  — C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2024
• The late ’80s is my favorite era of music, that peak right before people threw away the keyboards and cut their hair.
  — Ryan Reed, Spin, 15 Aug. 2023
• The August figure was also driven in part by an increase in oil which peaked at $3.984 per gallon in the third week of the month.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
• By the end of 2012, the price of a single credit, which had peaked at twenty-five euros, had tumbled to thirty-nine cents.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Some people, known as larks or morning chronotypes, peak early and feel at their best in the morning.
  — Cindi May, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
• Meanwhile, consumer savings, which peaked in 2021, are on the decline.
  — Time, 30 Sep. 2023
• Special events and peak visitation times could cause prices to change.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2024
• Yet stocks took months to eventually bottom out, and peaked at a much lower level than the 2015 high.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 6 Feb. 2024
• The audience for the Oscars peaked in its final half-hour with 21.9 million viewers.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2024
• Duranguense, known by its mix of saxophone, keyboard, and tambora, peaked in the mid-2000s.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
• The Christmas season is usually when outbreaks of all sorts of nasty bugs and viruses start peaking across the country.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
• The popularity of the art form peaked in the 19th century with the advent of photography.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
• The economy is growing at a healthy clip, unemployment is low, and inflation, which peaked last year at 9%, has slowed to about 4%.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
• The leaves begin to change in September and usually peak in mid-October.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2023
• The heat index — how the air feels based on real temperature and humidity — peaked at 111 at the airport.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
• Gothic was dark and macabre, and its popularity had peaked during the Civil War.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Oct. 2023
• The moon’s clash with Chiron has your anxieties peaking.
  — USA TODAY, 6 June 2023

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peak

3 of 3 adjective

• The factory has been running at peak capacity for the past year.
• Or like the color of the darker leaves that fall from trees in peak autumn.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 27 Oct. 2023
• That doesn’t mean there won’t be peak travel days, though.
  — Dallas News, 16 Nov. 2022
• The case, first reported in Tech Crunch, is one of the first of its kind to come to judgment in the post-peak-Covid landscape.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2022
• This is peak busy season for those who run the country’s elections, with the Nov. 8 midterms less than 60 days away.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• At the time, Hamlin was 24 years old and appeared to be in peak physical health.
  — Adina Wise, STAT, 9 Feb. 2024
• Stay at the base of the mountain at the swanky Waldorf Astoria Park City and spring on a room with a fireplace for peak cozy vibes.
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2024
• And a lot of that visitation is packed into a few months of the peak warm weather season.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
• Avoid running during peak intense sun hours from 10 AM to 3 PM.
  — Alyssa Hui, Health, 11 May 2023
• Ugg's best-selling, cushy Cozy Chenille Sock will help get your giftee into peak hygge mode for the rest of the season.
  — Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2023
• The National Weather Service's hourly forecast shows about a peak chance of rain, about 50%, at 7 p.m.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 1 Nov. 2022
• Traveling at non-peak times, too, can help your trip have less of an impact on your wallet.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2023
• Brad Nitz added that the next seven to 10 days will be peak Autumn leaf watching season in metro Atlanta.
  — Zachary Hansen, ajc, 13 Nov. 2021
• Bookings are released in three batches, with super-peak weeks being the first batch.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2022
• While the region hasn’t seen this much rain in years, winter is usually peak wet season.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2023
• To jump the entire distance, the athletes have to be in peak physical condition.
  — Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Nov. 2021
• Much of the eastern half of the Upper Peninsula is also in peak color during this week.
  — Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2023
• At 28 years old and a decade into his career, James led the Heat into the series with the Bucks in arguably his peak physical form.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
• Sellers waiting for peak demand to try to get the best price for their listing may find few buyers able to afford it.
  — Brenda Richardson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Palm turned them all away, making her story a white whale even in our era of peak serial killer content.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 14 Aug. 2023
• But they are turned off during times of peak energy demand.
  — Kyle Arnold, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
• In Kyoto, Japan, where records go back 1,200 years, the date of peak bloom has rapidly shifted earlier over the past century and a half.
  — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• To maintain peak brain performance, feed your brain its favorite fat.
  — Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• This should, roughly, be peak performance for a U series laptop at this size.
  — Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 19 May 2022
• Since the start of the school year, MPS previously reported a peak weekly count of 284 in late September.
  — Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2021
• The timeline for peak oil has been the subject of scrutiny by scientists and economists for decades.
  — Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The story is set in peak Sinatra period, late ‘50s/early ‘60s.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
• Regardless of the weight loss intervention, people tend to reach peak weight loss between about nine to 12 months, Ard said.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 16 Feb. 2024
• Summer is peak time, with many New Yorkers escaping the heat of Manhattan.
  — Wendy O'Dea, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2023
• And, on the Texas grid, miners can get paid for powering down during peak demand periods, like the one that recently hit the state.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 22 July 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024