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Example sentences for: crescendo

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The cry for better public schools reached a crescendo in 1989, when George Bush, the "education president," convened an education summit in Charlottesville, Va., which defined national education goals to be reached by the Year 2000.
Once "auction" invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, "Sold American!"
Imagine the uproar when televisions across the country show the first Democrat rising on the House floor, in a thundering crescendo, to denounce the Republican "coup" against the president.
As the wailing reaches a crescendo, lights go on all across the neighborhood.
His tenure began with a splashy exhibition on royal patronage and built to the crescendo of "King Tut," which visitors waited in long lines to see in 1977.