Example sentences for: climactic

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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