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Example sentences for: crescendo

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On June 28, Clarke wrote Rice that the pattern of al Qaeda activity indicating attack planning over the past six weeks "had reached a crescendo."
In one, the teen-age Stevens writes a dead-on Stevensian description of a motley village band--"the piping of flamboyant flutes, the wriggling of shrieking fifes with rasping dagger-voices, the sighing of bass-viols, drums that beat and rattle, the crescendo of cracked trombones."
Once "auction" invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, "Sold American!"
As the wailing reaches a crescendo, lights go on all across the neighborhood.
The most spectacular of them features a 9,500-pound (4,318-kg) killer whale who leaps gracefully more than 20 ft (6 m) out of the water, only to fall back again in a thunderous crescendo of dazzling spray.