How to Use apogee in a Sentence

apogee

noun
  • The long game is not the selfie at apogee.
    — Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The carousing reached its apogee on the final night.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2024
  • The nearest point is called the perigee and the farthest the apogee.
    — Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 29 May 2026
  • That was 20-odd years ago, when mass media were at their apogee.
    — Frank Rose, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2021
  • If a full moon occurs while the moon is at apogee, it is called a micromoon.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 Jan. 2026
  • If a full moon occurs while the moon is at apogee, it is called a micromoon.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 4 Dec. 2025
  • If a full moon occurs while the moon is at apogee, it is called a micromoon.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026
  • If a full moon occurs while the moon is at apogee, it is called a micromoon.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The new grand manner is again showing us the course of empire, on the far side of the apogee.
    — Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2020
  • For some members of the family this was the apogee of their careers.
    — The Economist, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The difference between a perigee and an apogee is a small fraction of that.
    — Robin Andrews, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • The apogee of the flight is never high enough for a parachute to act as a safety feature.
    — James McCommons, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2015
  • That’s because the moon will be at apogee, or the farthest point in its roughly four-week orbit.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Just remember that glass lenses, still the apogee of optics, are not meant for impact sports.
    — Mike Steere, Outside Online, 27 May 2022
  • Extreme perigees and apogees, or the most distant point in the orbit, happen on a predictable basis.
    — Fox News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The strawberry moon will appear a day after apogee, the point when the moon is farthest from Earth.
    — Amen Galinato, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
  • That's a higher apogee than what Virgin Galactic has reached to date.
    — Algernon D'ammassa, USA TODAY, 10 July 2021
  • Many will argue that GT4 was the apogee of the series (and this fifth place here is too low down the list).
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Jeff Bezos cried while in flight, close to the flight’s 107-kilometer apogee.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2021
  • Andreas Christensen, a Dane, is the apogee of Chelsea’s youth system.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
  • This was the junior-squash world at its pre-pandemic apogee—the Hunger Games for the ruling class.
    — Ruth S. Barrett, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The Flying Cloud, while not the largest clipper ever built, may be taken for the apogee of this trend.
    — Randall Fuller, WSJ, 19 July 2018
  • When the moon reaches its closest point to Earth, this is called perigee; its furthest point from Earth is known as apogee.
    — Meghan Willcoxon, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2022
  • That explosion will raise his chest at the same time that his forelegs will claw up into the air again to gain another apogee in the next stride’s arc.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • Suborbital speed is about 13% of an orbital flight, and the apogee is only one-quarter to one-fifth as high.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • In 1999, with the dot-com boom near its apogee, Angie’s List moved online.
    — Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • From that apogee — the top of the rocket’s arc — the instrument will measure nitric oxide levels.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The crew’s apogee — or farthest point from Earth — made two crew members the first women ever to fly so far from our planet.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Those are some extreme shifts in pressure and heat, but the whiskey spent just 94 minutes at apogee over the course of its nearly five hour trip.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The film marks the apogee of Eastwood and Leone spaghetti western cinema.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 23 May 2022

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