Explore Pinnacles through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pinnacles meaning
plural of pinnacle
Using Pinnacles
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of pinnacle
- In the example corpus, pinnacles often appears in combinations such as: pinnacles and, the pinnacles, pinnacles of.
Context around Pinnacles
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pinnacles
- In this selection, "pinnacles" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, striking, forbidding, rhetorical, reserve, form and shorn stand out and add context to how "pinnacles" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and forbidding pinnacles of rock and and striking pinnacles shorn out. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pinnacles" sits close to words such as aberrant, abloh and absurdities, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pinnacles
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Extra copper cladding has been recommended for the clock tower’s pinnacles. (12 words)
Mountaineers might tell you that pinnacles and pitfalls are often side by side. (13 words)
The chimneys are fused together with ridges between, and terminate in rounded pinnacles at the top. (16 words)
He was doing relatively well, having married and become a father (though he’d divorce within a year), and had even cut two modest solo albums, which included some nice songs that didn’t reach the pinnacles of the past. (40 words)
The open day is being held to celebrate the completion of repair works to the church’s pinnacles and weathervanes, and a year-long series of heritage activities, thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. (37 words)
The Monument Valley, pictured, straddles the state line of Arizona and Utah and is the 'classic southwest American landscape of stark sandstone buttes and forbidding pinnacles of rock, poking from an endless expanse of drifting red sands'. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
A group of 11, including two children, had been driving in six cars in Pinnacles Reserve, near Townsville in north Queensland last month.
During his lifetime, Stewart, founder of Sandals Resorts International, elevated Caribbean tourism to the pinnacles of global leadership in sustainable luxury.
Every spring, Coachella stands as one of the pinnacles of festival fashion and heavily influences style for the coming summer months.
The open day is being held to celebrate the completion of repair works to the church’s pinnacles and weathervanes, and a year-long series of heritage activities, thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The Pinnacles form part of the most extensive belt of wind-blown carbonate rock in the world, stretching more than 1,000km along coastal southwestern WA.
The route clears a campsite and is instantly spectacular, with rugged bays, steep cliffs, sandy beaches and striking pinnacles shorn out of the soft sandstone by the might of the North Sea.
He was doing relatively well, having married and become a father (though he’d divorce within a year), and had even cut two modest solo albums, which included some nice songs that didn’t reach the pinnacles of the past.
Mountaineers might tell you that pinnacles and pitfalls are often side by side.
The Monument Valley, pictured, straddles the state line of Arizona and Utah and is the 'classic southwest American landscape of stark sandstone buttes and forbidding pinnacles of rock, poking from an endless expanse of drifting red sands'.
What’s beyond question is that this suite of variations is one of the pinnacles of Western keyboard music.
Among the sonorous drone of 193 addresses, either restating the obvious or repeating by rote the contemporary global mantra of climate change, the Palestinians, and endemic poverty, some chiefs of state reached rhetorical pinnacles.
Extra copper cladding has been recommended for the clock tower’s pinnacles.
Canyons, gullies, arches, pinnacles, buttes, bluffs, and mesas are the common sight throughout south-central and southeast Utah.
Nauru has yet to develop a plan to remove the innumerable coral pinnacles created by mining and make those lands suitable for human habitation.
Other features common to Gothic architecture are the rib vault, buttresses, including flying buttresses; large windows which are often grouped, or have tracery; rose windows, towers, spires and pinnacles; and ornate façades.
Phosphate mining in the central plateau has left a barren terrain of jagged limestone pinnacles up to convert high.
The chimneys are fused together with ridges between, and terminate in rounded pinnacles at the top.
The coral was raised above sea level about 30 metres, and is now a dolomite limestone outcrop which was eroded in classic karst style into pinnacles up to 20 metres high.
The island is surrounded by a coral reef, which is exposed at low tide and dotted with pinnacles.
The north face of Ben Nevis is riven with buttresses, ridges, towers and pinnacles, and contains many classic scrambles and rock climbs.
Common combinations with pinnacles
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pinnacles and 6×
- the pinnacles 5×
- pinnacles of 5×
- and pinnacles 2×
- pinnacles up 2×