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Example sentences for: buildup

How can you use “buildup” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

After much buildup, the Metropolitan Opera's last commissioned work of the century, an opera based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, draws weak reviews overall, with a few raves here and there.
Though the buildup is sharply amusing in retrospect, it has succeeded in making Pat's return to television an event.
This buildup is part of why the universe is complex.
Even the deficit of the 1980s seems to me to be essentially a consequence of a final military buildup to defeat the Soviets.
The nuclear freeze movement undermined support for an aggressive military buildup by emphasizing the cost and riskiness of the Cold War.