Example sentences for: crescendo

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

  • Once "auction" invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, "Sold American!"

  • In fact, if pain is severe and uncontrolled after 1 or 2 doses (eg, crescendo pain), do not wait for 24 hours to pass before increasing the routine dose.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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