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Example sentences for: escalating

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Inside the White House, he tried to talk Johnson out of escalating the war.
After farewell tributes to Frank Sinatra last week, this week the supermarket tabs turn to the gory aftermath: the escalating hatred between his children and his widow, Barbara.
Finally, we intend to take a fairly skeptical stance toward the romance and rapidly escalating vanity of cyberspace.
Absent significant reform, the escalating costs of these programs will, in decades to come, crowd out what remains of the federal "discretionary" budget--the FBI, NASA, Yosemite, and all the rest.
For much of the film, you can't decide whether the murder plot is a product of Wade's escalating paranoia or if Schrader is just inept at shaping a whodunit.