Example sentences for: climactic

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

  • It's hard to tell, since so much has been left off-screen--including a climactic discussion between the boy and his stepfather that triggers the film's absurd ending.

  • Kaye has a punchy way with montage, and the script has at least one card up its sleeve: the climactic revelation that Derek's revered fireman dad (William Russ) was himself a racist who urged his son at the dinner table not to get too cozy with niggers or their literature.

  • Playing the straight man becomes him, and when he finally has a chance to cut loose--in a climactic speech before a meeting of the crime families, where he's forced to pose as Vitti's consigliere --his macho vamping jumbled with Jerry Lewis stammers had me laughing so hard that I almost needed supplemental oxygen.

  • In almost all Washington movies, there's an impassioned speech echoing Jimmy Stewart's climactic filibuster in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington . In Dave , the president calls a press conference to announce a full-employment program.

  • And his people, the Gungan, are a brave but primitive tribe who throw spears and rocks at the oncoming army in the climactic battle sequence.


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