Example sentences for: crescendo

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

  • 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.

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

  • Begowned men escort slinky naked women down endless hallways, with weary disinterest they observe isolated tableaux of coupling humans and, when their frenzy reaches a crescendo, they engage in joyless ballroom dancing.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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