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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:

Indeed, most of east and southeast Asia is in the midst of a big, prolonged military buildup.
Though the buildup is sharply amusing in retrospect, it has succeeded in making Pat's return to television an event.
At the peak of the Reagan Cold War buildup in the mid-1980s, defense claimed about 6 percent of GDP.
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.
What isn't by design is the mass of neurotic actressy mannerisms, which function like layer upon layer of wax buildup.