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Example sentences for: escalates

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

The longer he holds out at home and escalates the genocide in Kosovo, the more the American media pronounce the bombing a failure.
If the situation escalates, a threat conference may be convened.
But as the war over Kosovo escalates, such analogies prove to be of limited and rapidly diminishing use.
The debate over the National Book Award-winning Civil War novel, which has sold about 1 million copies so far, escalates.
One solution is to make the axons of the neurons bigger but this increases brain size again and the problem escalates.