How to Use "zenith" with Example Sentences
- 1. The battle of agincourt marks the zenith of mediaeval longbow technology .
- 2. Many early evolutionary biologists ( though not darwin himself ) thought that just as man was a risen ape , so white , european man was the zenith of humanity , and that people from other parts of the world were necessarily inferior .
- 3. Their astronomical system was thus closely associated with the concept of the meridian ( the great circle of the celestial sphere passing through the pole star and the observer 's zenith ) , and they determined systematically the culminations and lower transits ( meridian passages ) of these circumpolar stars .
- 4. Victoria lent her name to the victorian era , a time when the united kingdom 's power was at its zenith .
- 5. The popular conviction that fires are an unqualified evil reached its zenith after a third of yellowstone park in the us was destroyed by fire in 1988 .