How to Use summit in a Sentence

summit

1 of 2 noun
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  • The climbers failed to reach the summit.
  • A summit on global warming was held that year.
  • Leaders of several nations attended the economic summit.
  • The mountain range has summits over 10,000 feet high.
  • The single hits the summit for the first time in its second frame on the tally.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Vultures 1 marked West’s eleventh trip to the summit on the Billboard 200.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • At the summit, grin on full beam, there’s just one thing to do: Turn around and do it all again.
    — Robin Swithinbank, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
  • But the fraught nature of those ties was apparent at the G-20 summit.
    — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • On a clear day, hikers can see the Charlotte skyline from the 1,250-foot summit.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Tickets for the summit are on sale now and available on a sliding scale.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2024
  • First of all, because of the UN climate summit — which happens this week.
    — Laura Martins, The Verge, 21 Sep. 2023
  • During the summit, the justice went to a private dinner for the network’s donors.
    — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • They were headed back to the summit to head to the trailhead when the incident occurred, the statement said.
    — Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • She’s reached the summit with every title she’s pushed to the tally…except one.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The government wants to see a clear path to membership laid out at the Vilnius summit.
    — M. E. Sarotte, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2023
  • As of the last tracking week, the vibrant disco-pop song sits at No. 2 and will likely return to the summit in the coming days.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 7 Apr. 2023
  • With the presidency comes the power to set the agenda for the G20 summit in November.
    — Chuck Collins, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The approval aligned with the end of the climate summit in Dubai, where global leaders — for the first time — agreed to transition away from oil, gas and coal.
    — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Wattstax was a legendary summit for Black pop in its own right, spawning a live album and concert film.
    — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 30 May 2023
  • People come from near and far to go skiing, ride the Aiguille du Midi cable car, and even attempt to climb to the summit.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The race also features the polka-dot jersey, awarded to the man who wins the most summit climbs in the mountains of the Alps and Pyrenees, and the green jersey, which goes to the fastest of the sprinters.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
  • But two things happened in the weeks leading up to the Vilnius summit which disrupted hopes for a smooth rollout.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Metallica was the first of the awesome foursome’s six leaders on the Billboard 200 chart, logging four weeks at the summit.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Both of the latter findings suggested that the mice have a real foothold in the Andes’ summits, the scientists say.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2023
  • India’s prime minister no longer attends the summits of the Non-Aligned Movement.
    — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 25 Dec. 2023
  • If finding indoor shelter is not an option: • Stay away from open fields, hill summits, or ridge tops.
    — Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Native Hawaiians also offer prayers, chants and dances at the summit, called Kaluapele, rangers said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 28 Mar. 2024
  • This rule was enacted so that summit attendees could speak freely in order to allow the event to have the highest impact.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2024
  • One of Biden's goals with the summit is to ensure that competition between the US and China does not boil over into conflict.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Either way, the summit is expected to lead to further military pledges for Ukraine.
    — Anna Gordon, Time, 10 July 2023
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summit

2 of 2 verb
  • Maybe one kid wants to fish and the other wants to summit a mountain.
    — Lauren Matison, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The women’s platoon was the first in the company to summit the final hill of the hike.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The 88-year-old tried and failed to summit the peak, which is India's second-tallest.
    — CBS News, 23 June 2019
  • So will the first to summit the Iseran, the highest road pass in the French Alps that hasn't been climbed by the Tour for 12 years.
    — John Leicester, baltimoresun.com, 5 July 2019
  • That isn’t to say that summiting the region’s peaks is easy.
    — Peter Fish, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
  • The climbers who summited K2 that day were swept into the heart of a bitter debate.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The kids bravely took turns summiting to get a quick snapshot and then ran back down to the windbreak.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The goal for this outing is to summit seven of these hilltop landmarks in the center of town.
    — Thomas Graham, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2018
  • Help came in the form of a group of woman climbers who had also just summited and were on their way down to base camp.
    — Kendall Trammell and Amanda Watts, CNN, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Originally, Carter had planned to summit Everest, then come back to the South Col and take off from there.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 13 June 2022
  • Crude has failed to summit the $60 a barrel mark repeatedly over the past week.
    — Alex Nussbaum, Bloomberg.com, 26 Mar. 2019
  • Time may be running out for those markets that have yet to summit the prior peak, Humbinger said.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The lawsuit said the 17-year-old was among a group of boys who decided to try to summit Pulpit Rock, which is described as a steep rock face in the area.
    — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The first climber to summit all 14 peaks was Reinhold Messner (who was also the first to climb Mount Everest solo).
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Big mountain climber Adrian Ballinger guides novice climbers to the tallest peaks in the world and has summited Everest eight times in eleven attempts.
    — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 16 June 2019
  • The cables that climbers use to summit Half Dome, for instance, usually are put in place in May, but that hasn’t happened yet.
    — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
  • The Tribune is writing on easier peaks to summit in Utah.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2022
  • Thrill-seekers and those who want a workout should opt to summit the latter before heading to the namesake state beach just south of the trek.
    — Matt Pawlik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • In the past six years, three people have been killed trying to summit the peak, including two people who died in the summer of 2019.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Naperville’s Lucy Westlake climbed into the record books this week as the youngest female to summit the highest point in each of America’s 50 states.
    — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2021
  • Stunning photos from the mountain showed climbers waiting in line to summit the mountain.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • Gottfurcht is the first person in the world to summit Mt. Everest with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
    — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2021
  • Low winds and clear skies this week have allowed more than 150 foreigners and Sherpas to summit safely.
    — Alan Arnette, Outside Online, 13 May 2021
  • With continued good weather, more of the over 300 climbers waiting in Base Camp are expected to summit this week.
    — Alan Arnette, Outside Online, 12 May 2021
  • The big hill that no one in Medvedev’s generation has been able to summit suddenly seemed that much higher.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2021
  • World leaders are calling the upcoming COP26 summit a make-or-break moment in the fight against climate change.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Blacktail Rocks is accessed by summiting Mount Baldy and then continuing on the path to the jagged peak behind it.
    — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018
  • Purja and his team, which changed slightly between each mountain, didn't just summit and leave.
    — Alexandra Svokos, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2022
  • More importantly, the Frogs have the chance to summit the college football mountain.
    — Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Explore the park on horseback, or book a hiking tour to summit Carrauntoohil, the country's tallest mountain.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2021

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