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Examples

• This is a Hollywood director at the height of his powers creating original, wildly ambitious epics.

• During the height of his disenchantment, he visited his hometown where an old friend gave him some liquid acid.

• An x-ray two hours later confirms my hunch: my tibia (the big bone behind the shin) is snapped clean in two.

• “Getting out of X band is on option,” said one senior Air Force official.

• At the height of the Soviet Union, the proletariat universally understood everything their government said was a work of fiction.

• He thought they were now in touch with our troops at "X" but that they had been through some hard fighting to get there.

• W was a Watchman, and guarded the door; X was expensive, and so became poor.

• All please noteHis wondrous height and girth; He has the longest legs and throatOf anything on earth.

• And now, escaped from her room, even at this height there came upon him again the hot sluggishness of London.

• The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.