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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:

As the end of each fiscal year looms with no agreement between Congress and the president, conflict escalates, and the president threatens vetoes.
As the crisis escalates, the critics pile on further.
The longer he holds out at home and escalates the genocide in Kosovo, the more the American media pronounce the bombing a failure.
The debate over the National Book Award-winning Civil War novel, which has sold about 1 million copies so far, escalates.
But as the war over Kosovo escalates, such analogies prove to be of limited and rapidly diminishing use.