Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: crowning
IPA transcription: [kɹ'aʊnɪŋ]
Pronunciations of crowning
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: crowning(a)
    Meaning: representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment; "the crowning accomplishment of his career"
Usage examples
  • For herself the new worship was a crowning sign of the triumph of Humanity.
  • The crowning glory of his graceful perfection of outline and detail is the noble spirit of serenity which illumines all its beauty.
  • As Trysdale grimly wrenched apart the seam of his last glove, the crowning instance of his fatuous and tardily mourned egoism came vividly back to him.
  • The coming of the first robin was a jubilee beyond crowning of monarch or birthday of pope; the first red leaf hurrying through "the altered air," an epoch.
  • We had to sleep after that long sweep through the air, but we turned out early enough next day, and again we rose softly up the height till we could top the crowning trees and see the broad fair land at our pleasure.
  • ALTHOUGH Edison's contributions to human comfort and progress are extensive in number and extraordinarily vast and comprehensive in scope and variety, the universal verdict of the world points to his incandescent lamp and system of distribution of electrical current as the central and crowning achievements of his life up to this time.
  • Sometimes of a morning, after a very vivid dream of the alleys, cellars and gutters, ragpickers, newsboys, and beggars of New York, she would open her eyes upon her own comfortable chamber, with its glowing fire and crimson curtains, and bright mirror crowning the walnut bureau between them, she would jump up and gaze wildly around, not remembering where she was or how she came thither.
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