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Example sentences for: climax

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

The air strikes marked the climax of an intense 48-hour period in which Berger notified congressional leaders, the principals called their foreign counterparts, and President Clinton flew back from his vacation on Martha's Vineyard to address the nation from the Oval Office.
The climax is the publication of a book that takes the plaintiffs' side and that remains on the best-seller list in hardcover and paperback for years.
("This is the death I have always wanted," gasps one fellow in this picture's lachrymose climax.)
But even during the climax, it is possible to look up and count the Exit signs, or the tiles on the ceiling.
(Click on the graphic to see the movie's emotional climax, when the young lawyer hero confronts the old lawyer villain about selling out.)