peaking

To peak is to reach a high point. When the economy is peaking, the number of jobs and businesses is increasing, but the number of people working is also increasing.

  • The economy is peaking because the number of jobs and businesses is increasing, but the number of people working is also increasing.

  • The company is peaking because the number of products is increasing, but the number of sales is also increasing.

Definition of peaking

verb

To reach a highest degree or maximum.

verb

To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.

verb

To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.

verb

To become sick or wan.

verb

To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.

verb

To pry; to peep slyly.

noun

The act of something reaching a peak.

adjective

Peaky; sickly; pining

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Example Sentences for peaking

  • 1

    The peak of course, is the top of the mountain.

  • 2

    The top of the peak is relatively flat.

  • 3

    The top of the peak is the highest point of Breckenridge Ski Resort.

  • 4

    Gun is an undistinguished hill at the southern end of the Peak District.

  • 5

    Bison Peak is the highest peak in the wilderness.

  • 6

    Such ends are positioned higher than the peak of the convex surface of the tire.

  • 7

    The peak of excellence was attainable.

  • 8

    This is the uppermost peak of the mountain.

  • 9

    It is the second highest non volcanic peak in the state, after Bonanza Peak.

  • 10

    Doublet Peak is the fifth highest peak in the Wind River Range, Wyoming.