How do you use the word "summit" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "summit" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "summit": Make one more effort and you will reach the summit. The summit of the mountain is covered with snow.

Summit Meaning

/ˈsʌmɪt/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.

nounThe topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak., The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.

Sentence Examples

Make one more effort and you will reach the summit.

The summit of the mountain is covered with snow.

We reached the summit at noon.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

top tip crown

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

After a long and difficult climb, the team finally reached the mountain ____.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The climbers finally reached the ____ of the mountain after several days of difficult and cold hiking.

Word Origin & History

PIE word *upó The noun is derived from Late Middle English somet, somete (“head, top”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman sumet and Middle French sommet (masculine), somete, sommette (“top of a thing; highest point of a mountain”) (feminine) (modern French sommet), from Old French somet, sommette, from som, sum (“highest point, summit”) + -et (suffix forming diminutive masculine nouns), -ete, -ette (suffix forming diminutive feminine nouns). Som, sum are derived from Latin summum (“top, summit”), a noun use of the neuter of summus (“greatest, highest; top, uppermost”, adjective) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“over”) + *-m̥mos, *-tm̥mos (“suffix forming superlative adjectives”)). The modern English spelling was influenced by summity (“height or top of a thing; utmost degree, perfection”) (obsolete). The verb is derived from the noun.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"How can I crawl up to reach those heights / And run? / The venom is what keeps me alive / The venom is what keeps me alive / Up to the summit at night / Desperate to find that beating heart of mine that always makes me run" — 2021 September 17, “The Summit”, in Eternal Blue, performed by Spiritbox, Portland, Or.: Rise Records, →OCLC:

"Learning from others as from himself, he reached the summit of his development with his latest work." — 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 153:

"Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited." — 2012 July–August, Kenza Moller, “Eyes on the North”, in Canadian Geographic, volume 132, number 4, Ottawa: Royal Canadian Geographical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

"If the Soviet leaders could go on summiting with the US while bombs poured on North Vietnam and yet claim that they had nothing but the best interests of the Vietnamese revolution in mind, there seems precious little reason to cry wolf at Peking-Bonn relations." — 1969, Economic and Political Weekly, volume 4, numbers 14-26, page 645:

"[…] what the North Vietnamese would do while Richard Nixon was summiting in Moscow. […]" — 1972, Newsweek, volume 79, page 51:

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