Example sentences for: apotheosis

How can you use “apotheosis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's a persona that found its apotheosis in 1981 on the cover of She Shot Me Down , his darkest album: Sinatra, hunched in a leather jacket, wreathed in smoke.

  • The apotheosis was reached, without doubt, in the western desert when a disconsolate squaddie who was peering through the mechanical entrails of his tank was asked by his oppo what was “up.”

  • Or maybe it's a cyclical thing: Fantasy was last in fashion during the '70s, when (as you point out) Star Wars had its astonishing apotheosis.

  • Paroled after seven years and with a yearning to see his daughter and loyal blond wife (Monica Potter, the apotheosis of the Ivory girl), he has the bum luck to land on a prison transport flight described--in one of those testosterone-laden lines that can be comfortably transplanted to coming attractions--as "a planeload of pure predators."

  • The apotheosis of his Japanese quest is the swooningly gorgeous Almond Blossom , painted in February of 1890.


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