How to Use apogee in a Sentence

apogee

noun

• Still, the five-day Test match is the apogee of the sport.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
• The new grand manner is again showing us the course of empire, on the far side of the apogee.
  — Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2020
• 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
• That was 20-odd years ago, when mass media were at their apogee.
  — Frank Rose, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2021
• In 1999, with the dot-com boom near its apogee, Angie’s List moved online.
  — Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times, 14 May 2023
• In retrospect, that moment — the end of 2022 — was the apogee of Biden’s power.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
• For some members of the family this was the apogee of their careers.
  — The Economist, 25 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Even reaching apogee would’ve been great, so controlling all way to putting the crater in the right spot was epic!!
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2020
• Andreas Christensen, a Dane, is the apogee of Chelsea’s youth system.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
• The difference between a perigee and an apogee is a small fraction of that.
  — Robin Andrews, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• 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
• Jeff Bezos cried while in flight, close to the flight’s 107-kilometer apogee.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2021
• 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
• This month happens to feature the farthest apogee Moon, which is a mere 1.7 days after the eclipse.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• A minimoon happens when the moon is at its furthest point from Earth (called the apogee).
  — Cailey Rizzo, Fox News, 8 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• The suborbital launch on a Black Brant sounding rocket reached an apogee of 243 km.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 July 2022
• The film marks the apogee of Eastwood and Leone spaghetti western cinema.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 23 May 2022
• 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
• Faith in the presidency may have reached its apogee soon after the Second World War.
  — Ken Burns, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
• Extreme perigees and apogees, or the most distant point in the orbit, happen on a predictable basis.
  — Fox News, 6 Feb. 2020
• Martin’s obsession with soup reaches its apogee in A Dance With Dragons, the fifth book in the cycle.
  — Jacob Mikanowski, Slate Magazine, 5 July 2017
• That's a higher apogee than what Virgin Galactic has reached to date.
  — Algernon D'ammassa, USA TODAY, 10 July 2021
• Just remember that glass lenses, still the apogee of optics, are not meant for impact sports.
  — Mike Steere, Outside Online, 27 May 2022
• That being said, the moon could be closer to its furthest point from the Earth, called its apogee, which means its moving slower through the Earth’s shadow.
  — Rick Green, courant.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• From that apogee — the top of the rocket’s arc — the instrument will measure nitric oxide levels.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
• Friday’s moon appeared as a minimoon, which happens when the moon is at its furthest point from Earth, known as the apogee.
  — Fox News, 12 June 2017
• Moreover, the inner tension of that style inflects the rest of the film; Schrader’s spare image-making here reaches an apogee of lyricism, his sense of essential ornament appears forged in fire.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024