Example sentences for: climactic

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

  • The movie builds to a couple of climactic science fairs, but they're presented almost as afterthoughts, and in moments of tragedy one's tears are quietly coaxed instead of jerked.

  • Traditionalists complain it will dilute ancient rivalries, screw up the year-to-year continuity of statistics, obliterate the quaint differences between the two leagues (principally, the designated-hitter rule), and spoil the climactic, virgin mystique of the World Series, which, until now, was the leagues' only intercourse.

  • The performance is marvelous, and it makes poetic sense in light of the movie's climactic twist.

  • Adrian is smarmily insulated from his past; Ricky, whom Annie and Hannah stumble on in the film's climactic scene, has let his past eat him alive.

  • 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.


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