to crown it all

Examples of crowned

crowned

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Even when she was crowned separately from her husband, the arrangement of ceremonies closely echoed those of the four days of a king's coronation.
Some of the earlier families had even crowned their career with a title of nobility.
While his achievements were crowned with many honours, they rode lightly on his shoulders.
A wall of glazing is crowned by a roof of twisted strips, converging at the apex.
In some cases, anticlericals painted churches red, heaped religious images on the bonfire and performed liturgical burlesques in which bulls were crowned bishop.
Seeds passed by gorillas had the highest germination rate (62%) and those passed by the crowned guenon had the lowest (38%).
Here we struggle, that elsewhere we may be crowned.
The narrative is then crowned by statements that define who she has become and is still becoming.
The whole is crowned with a striking roof canopy standing on slender mullions.
The consequences of crowned eagle centralplace foraging on predation risk in monkeys.
Alternatively, at least some concluding attempt at formulating tentative hypotheses about the key emergenceof-parties issue could have crowned the study.
This eminence also was crowned by two cromlechs, but both are now in ruins.
The crowned guenon occurred at the highest densities, whereas chimpanzees had the lowest densities.
We shape societies and fashion their futures; it is, alas, only in retrospect that we will learn whether our efforts are crowned with success.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
We must learn all the lessons from this action, which has been crowned with success.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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