Sample Sentences foracme (editor-reviewed)
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Winning the state science fair felt like the acme of her high school career; she doubted anything else would ever top it.acme = the highest point or best moment
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At the acme of the storm, the wind howled so fiercely that the trees bent almost to the ground.acme = the most intense point
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Winning the Olympic gold medal in gymnastics represented the acme of her athletic career.acme = the highest point of achievement or success
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Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have to sit here primly and be the acme of widowed dignity and propriety when she was only seventeen. (source)acme = highest level
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In the spring of 1917, when Doctor Richard Diver first arrived in Zurich, he was twenty-six years old, a fine age for a man, indeed the very acme of bachelorhood. (source)acme = height (the highest and best point)
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Her cleverness in selecting the proper wear for herself and children was nothing short of marvellous; and her calm acceptance of the new state of affairs, the acme of good breeding. (source)acme = highest level
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I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money.
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acme = highest and best level
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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A new Acme had opened, and the bakery section always had a tray of free samples sitting on the counter. (source)Acme = name of a company
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ACME Storage meets the Catacombs of Domatilla, Langdon thought as Anderson consulted the blueprint. (source)
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When my husband left Twentieth Century, we came here and he took a job as head of the engineering department of Acme Motors. (source)
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And, like the experts, the students thought that Acme and Sorrell Ridge were markedly inferior to the others, although the experts thought Sorrell Ridge was worse than Acme, while the students had the order the other way around. (source)Acme = name of a company
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You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic. (source)
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At the end of that year, he came to me one morning and told me that he had resigned from Acme Motors, that he was retiring and would not work anywhere else. (source)
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Wilson and Schooler took the first-, eleventh-, twenty-fourth-, thirty-second-, and forty-fourth-ranking jams—Knott's Berry Farm, Alpha Beta, Featherweight, Acme, and Sorrell Ridge—and gave them to a group of college students. (source)
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And, like the experts, the students thought that Acme and Sorrell Ridge were markedly inferior to the others, although the experts thought Sorrell Ridge was worse than Acme, while the students had the order the other way around. (source)
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