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How to use the word crowning in a Sentence?

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I felt a ton of pressure. I just realized, ‘Oh my god, I’m having this baby right now,' i told my husband. He didn’t realize the baby was crowning.

Emily Geller Hardman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I told my husband. He didn’t realize the baby was crowning.

Emily Geller Hardman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In granting Beijing host status for the Olympic Games, we are crowning a barbarous regime with laurels while we should be condemning their abuse and genocide.

Chris Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I do think this book is the crowning achievement of her career so far and that is saying something when you've got Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies behind you, it's a book about the re-jigging of this country 500 years ago which has connotations with what's going now.

Nicholas Pearson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It’s not exactly one of their crowning achievements, they had a lot of back and forth with the Port Authority.

Benjamin Kabak

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It was a major challenge to rebuild the subway at the same time you’re rebuilding the site above it. it’s not exactly one of their crowning achievements.

Benjamin Kabak

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

She said she needed her pants off, so I took those off for her and I noticed the baby was crowning. So I asked her to lift her hips so I could put the towels underneath her hips, and as soon as she lifted her hips, the baby came right out.

Rashelle Rehms

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It confirms that no one state can claim virtually an entire sea. The award is a historic win not only for the Philippines ... it renews humanity's faith in a rules based global order, the award opens a horizon of possibilities for all stakeholders. The award is a crowning glory of international law.

Solicitor General Jose Calida

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We didn’t know the baby would deliver completely en caul until he was crowning.

Robin Baker

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It was fantastic night for us and also it has been a great year for Poland. We won in volleyball, we beat Germany in football, first time in 80 years, and tonight -- crowning glory.

Pawel Pawlikowski/Ida

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.

Edwin Markham

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

Paul Valéry

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Sophocles

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Elias Canetti

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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