Pinnacled

A less common form is known as the pinnacled berg, and in almost every case this is a tabular berg which has been weathered or has capsized. ❋ Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)

The "huge tabular masses" typical of ice islands "tend to have a lot of inertia" compared with conventional, "pinnacled" icebergs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jamie Dimon has climbed the pinnacled Everest of self-promotion. ❋ RJ (2011)

His portraits are dexterous and offer a merciless likeness, his carvings show startling technical accomplishment, his landscapes open up the pinnacled hills of the northern regions, and his femme fatales mark what is considered to be the beginnings of soft pornography. ❋ Francesca Angelini (2010)

But in my opinion his career pinnacled when it came to Evans's outfits, particularly a pink gabardine ensemble ($1,000-$1,500) that I wouldn't hesitate to buy for my cowgirl, if I had a cowgirl. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Beyond, lay mountains, low and pinnacled as some city of stone. ❋ Joe Sullivan (2010)

Surely we've reached the pinnacled of gaming - what is there left to hope for? ❋ Greg Tannahill (2009)

Of the gambling – booths there was a plentiful show, flourishing in all the splendour of carpeted ground, striped hangings, crimson cloth, pinnacled roofs, geranium pots, and livery servants. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I felt more poised and pinnacled in the void than when I had stood on the spike of rock, for I had a substantial hold neither for foot nor hand. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The road had begun to thrust itself through high-flung, sharply pinnacled masses and rounded outcroppings of rock on which clung patches of the amber moss. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But gradually the clouds massed themselves, the familiar earth disappeared, and we were “pinnacled in mid-heaven” in unutterable isolation, blank forgotten units, in a white, wonderful, illuminated world, without permanence or solidity. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

The air became damp and cool; miles of fine smooth green grass stretched out before us; high hills, broken, pinnacled, wooded, and cleft with deep ravines, rose on our left; we heard the clash and music of falling water: to the north it was like the Munster Thal, to the south altogether volcanic. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

“What do you call this allt?” said I, looking up to the high pinnacled hill on my right. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Throw in the background, slowly rising as you recede from the shore, a curtain of plutonic peaks and buttresses, cones, quoins, cupolas, parrot-beaks; with every trick of shape, from the lumpy Zahd to the buttressed and pinnacled ❋ Unknown (2003)

Exhausted, breathless, their shaken heads they laid, braided and pinnacled by glossycombed, against the counterledge. ❋ Unknown (2003)

These edifices were lofty and imposing, pinnacled with shining domes and minarets. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)

Germany to see the tyrants who have pinnacled themselves on its supineness precipitated into the ruin from which they shall never arise. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The caravan that struggled out of the pinnacled city of Toledo some days later was entirely different from the one that had left the university city of Salamanca, for the mad ahead was not an insecure trail over mountains but a major highway between the capital of Spain and its principal commercial port. ❋ Michener, James (1992)