How to Use apex in a Sentence

apex

noun
  • The £5 gold piece is an apex coin.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Many have tried since, and many have not quite reached that apex.
    — Cory Mull, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
  • Say when the sun hits its apex, the clock reads five hours past noon.
    — Alex Davies, Wired, 6 Jan. 2021
  • The footage revealed a new apex predator in the brown rat.
    — Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Those apexes pass by, but the art of their passage lingers along.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2023
  • More important, though, the world has changed since the town was at its apex.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Lily climbs a tree and runs across a roof to perch on the apex of a garage — in a single shot.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The skirt, which sat at the apex of her bump, left the top of her belly exposed.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2023
  • There is a tendency to pin a celebrity down in the apex of their fame.
    — Mark Peikert, Town & Country, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Use your ruler to measure one half inch from the apex of the triangle.
    — Megan Arnett, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Hangman turned the chairs around back-to-back and hit a powerbomb at the apex of the chairs.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
  • The final shot entered the apex of Brown’s skull, killing him.
    — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 10 June 2020
  • But that proved to be the apex of Kapp’s tenure as Cal head coach.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2023
  • Besides, all this stuff has trickled down from the apex of the sports pyramid.
    — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 24 June 2019
  • At the apex of his hustle, that meant pulling 20-hour workdays.
    — Luke Winkie, Men's Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Who could this shy and enigmatic apex predator be?
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
  • That moment is the apex of the film, but not the end of the restaurant's story.
    — Julia Thiel, Chicago Reader, 23 Jan. 2018
  • This might have been the best moment of his life, the apex of the Ferris wheel.
    — Rich Cohen, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Once Booker gets by him, Alex’s job is just to get the ball at its apex.
    — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The ceiling is just over 6 feet high at the apex in this modern version.
    — Elliott Hester, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The chance to see Ted Williams at the apex of his career was not to be missed.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The tower on the Catholic church tapers to the sky, but there is no cross at its apex.
    — John Branch Tasneem Alsultan, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2022
  • This year is not the first time lukewarm waters have lured the apex predators to the region.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 30 May 2026
  • Dive into the corners, turn smoothly to nail the apex, and then put down the power.
    — Michael Harley, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • In the dense forests of Thailand, spotting an apex predator is a rare sight.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Page also had the idea to place cameras in the track, asking for one in the apex of the corner.
    — Zach Horrall, Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2018
  • Makos are defined as apex predators and can get up to 1,000 pounds.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Great white sharks were seen as apex predators, so many people struggled to see them as prey for orcas.
    — Michael H Gavshon, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The movie is an apex of film noir, filled with dark shadows, moody lighting and ominous swaying palm trees.
    — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • Yet the surge of this virus trio is still not as bad as Covid was during the apex of the pandemic.
    — Stephanie Elam, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022

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