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Example sentences for: escalate

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

Pass on the name of a group for parents like her: It is Parents Anonymous, and it helps stressed out parents who fear they might escalate from yelling to actual physical abuse.
Because it's ultimately self-doubt that really matters, no place can really be safe--hence the need to escalate the jokes.
Brown also has a Clintonian streak that threatens to escalate pandering into a character issue.
The betting is that neither side will let the crisis escalate, because their trade relationship is too cozy.
and the situation would rapidly escalate into a paradox.