How to Use peak in a Sentence

peak

1 of 3 noun
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  • The recipe says to beat the cream until it forms soft peaks.
  • At her peak she was writing a new novel every year.
  • Violence reached a peak just before the election.
  • Great views of the peaks can be seen by heading left at the junction.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The year-over-year figure is down sharply from a 7% peak last June but far above the Fed's 2% target.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
  • Eleven rate hikes by the Fed have helped send inflation tumbling from its peak over the past year and a half.
    — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • So, the short-term, peak noise that happens isn't accounted for.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Since reaching its peak in the 1990s, overall crime in the United States has declined.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • That was the case for Zsolt, who bought his boat from a couple who raced during the ’80s and ’90s, the era considered the racing peak within the club.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Wear long sleeves and pants during peak mosquito hours – dawn and dusk.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Tucked between the jagged basalt peaks and moraines is No Name Lake, a turquoise gem popping out from the surrounding black rock.
    — Haley Nelson | , oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Go at peak traffic time and step back behind their landscape plants.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Inflation rose to more than 41 percent at its peak this spring.
    — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The mid-to-late ’70s were a peak period for television’s impact on the Billboard charts.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The earlier round of protests reached its peak in January 2021.
    — Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Day after day of unseasonable heat drove the cherry trees to reach peak bloom on March 17.
    — Harry Stevens, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • That corresponds with a peak in ocean temperatures in the area.
    — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The four weeks in the survey also includes Cinco de Mayo, a peak sales event for Mexican lagers.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 14 June 2023
  • When To Buy Summer products often go on sale in the off-season, so look for deals as peak beach season nears a close.
    — Sara Gaynes Levy, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
  • The trail will lead you past cascades flowing off the peaks of Mount Diablo over the course of a moderate 5.1-mile circuit.
    — Jenna Scatena, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • What’s most important is to do it at peak energy time, which for me is midafternoon.
    — Nancy A. Ruhling, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The team also saw the cicadas’ peak frequency varying between 1.2 kHz and 1.5 kHz.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2023
  • While the eastside docks will be open, the agency urged patience as backups are likely during peak hours.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2023
  • But since reaching a peak of 9.1 per cent, in June of last year, inflation has fallen by almost two-thirds.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • In the peak years of his power, most of the coverage in the mainstream media was little short of adulatory.
    — Thomas W. Lippman, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The new study is the first to show that birds’ vocal muscles require exercise to achieve peak performance, the authors say.
    — Olivia Ferrari, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2023
  • If finding indoor shelter is not an option: • Avoid open fields, hill peaks, or ridge tops.
    — Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Adding to its woes, its rapid expansion in different parts of the world during the peak of its success made matters worse.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 16 Apr. 2024
  • After rising in July, new home starts dropped in August as mortgage rates climbed back to their late 2022 peak.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This cake can be baked in advance, wrapped, and refrigerated for up to two days for peak freshness, or frozen for up to three months.
    — Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2023
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peak

2 of 3 verb
  • The song was a hit, and peaked at #25 on the Billboard chart of the hottest songs in the U.S.
    — TIME, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The stock market peaked a few months later, in March 2000.
    — The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Winds blow from the northwest up to 20 mph, with gusts peaking around 30 mph.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The stock has lost about two-thirds of its value since peaking in 2013.
    — Flavia Rotondi, Fortune Europe, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The song, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, was written and produced by James.
    — Ralphie Aversa, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
  • The first full moon of the year, known as the Wolf Moon, will appear on Wednesday night and will peak on Thursday.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • By that point, the U.A.W.’s membership had peaked, at one and a half million.
    — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The eclipse will peak at 11:11 a.m., when the sun will appear as an upside-down crescent.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • More friends joined the rotation as the evening went on, of course peaking with sunset.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • The latter also peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Global 200.
    — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 29 Dec. 2023
  • However, Mizuho says that the worst for gilts is likely over as the Bank of England’s base rate looks to have peaked.
    — WSJ, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Despite those big wins, Hot Pink only peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 200.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Deutsche’s analysts said the wave would not peak until late 2024.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 1 June 2023
  • The defense is peaking at the right time The season opener offered a glimpse of what was to come for Houston.
    — C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The late ’80s is my favorite era of music, that peak right before people threw away the keyboards and cut their hair.
    — Ryan Reed, Spin, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The August figure was also driven in part by an increase in oil which peaked at $3.984 per gallon in the third week of the month.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
  • By the end of 2012, the price of a single credit, which had peaked at twenty-five euros, had tumbled to thirty-nine cents.
    — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Some people, known as larks or morning chronotypes, peak early and feel at their best in the morning.
    — Cindi May, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Meanwhile, consumer savings, which peaked in 2021, are on the decline.
    — Time, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Special events and peak visitation times could cause prices to change.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Yet stocks took months to eventually bottom out, and peaked at a much lower level than the 2015 high.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The audience for the Oscars peaked in its final half-hour with 21.9 million viewers.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Duranguense, known by its mix of saxophone, keyboard, and tambora, peaked in the mid-2000s.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The Christmas season is usually when outbreaks of all sorts of nasty bugs and viruses start peaking across the country.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The popularity of the art form peaked in the 19th century with the advent of photography.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The economy is growing at a healthy clip, unemployment is low, and inflation, which peaked last year at 9%, has slowed to about 4%.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The leaves begin to change in September and usually peak in mid-October.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The heat index — how the air feels based on real temperature and humidity — peaked at 111 at the airport.
    — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
  • Gothic was dark and macabre, and its popularity had peaked during the Civil War.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The moon’s clash with Chiron has your anxieties peaking.
    — USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
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peak

3 of 3 adjective
  • The factory has been running at peak capacity for the past year.
  • Or like the color of the darker leaves that fall from trees in peak autumn.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 27 Oct. 2023
  • That doesn’t mean there won’t be peak travel days, though.
    — Dallas News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The case, first reported in Tech Crunch, is one of the first of its kind to come to judgment in the post-peak-Covid landscape.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2022
  • This is peak busy season for those who run the country’s elections, with the Nov. 8 midterms less than 60 days away.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • At the time, Hamlin was 24 years old and appeared to be in peak physical health.
    — Adina Wise, STAT, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Stay at the base of the mountain at the swanky Waldorf Astoria Park City and spring on a room with a fireplace for peak cozy vibes.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2024
  • And a lot of that visitation is packed into a few months of the peak warm weather season.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Avoid running during peak intense sun hours from 10 AM to 3 PM.
    — Alyssa Hui, Health, 11 May 2023
  • Ugg's best-selling, cushy Cozy Chenille Sock will help get your giftee into peak hygge mode for the rest of the season.
    — Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The National Weather Service's hourly forecast shows about a peak chance of rain, about 50%, at 7 p.m.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Traveling at non-peak times, too, can help your trip have less of an impact on your wallet.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Brad Nitz added that the next seven to 10 days will be peak Autumn leaf watching season in metro Atlanta.
    — Zachary Hansen, ajc, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Bookings are released in three batches, with super-peak weeks being the first batch.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2022
  • While the region hasn’t seen this much rain in years, winter is usually peak wet season.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2023
  • To jump the entire distance, the athletes have to be in peak physical condition.
    — Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Much of the eastern half of the Upper Peninsula is also in peak color during this week.
    — Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2023
  • At 28 years old and a decade into his career, James led the Heat into the series with the Bucks in arguably his peak physical form.
    — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Sellers waiting for peak demand to try to get the best price for their listing may find few buyers able to afford it.
    — Brenda Richardson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Palm turned them all away, making her story a white whale even in our era of peak serial killer content.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 14 Aug. 2023
  • But they are turned off during times of peak energy demand.
    — Kyle Arnold, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In Kyoto, Japan, where records go back 1,200 years, the date of peak bloom has rapidly shifted earlier over the past century and a half.
    — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
  • To maintain peak brain performance, feed your brain its favorite fat.
    — Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • This should, roughly, be peak performance for a U series laptop at this size.
    — Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 19 May 2022
  • Since the start of the school year, MPS previously reported a peak weekly count of 284 in late September.
    — Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The timeline for peak oil has been the subject of scrutiny by scientists and economists for decades.
    — Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The story is set in peak Sinatra period, late ‘50s/early ‘60s.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Regardless of the weight loss intervention, people tend to reach peak weight loss between about nine to 12 months, Ard said.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Summer is peak time, with many New Yorkers escaping the heat of Manhattan.
    — Wendy O'Dea, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Several factors within the economy are contributing to this shift away from peak employment.
    — Stephen Miles, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024

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