anticlimax

Example Sentences

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In the end, the whole ruse felt like a bit of an anticlimax, but it did at least add extra spice to the start of the series.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

It’s the kind of near-miss that could feel, in unsurer hands, like an anticlimax.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023

The world-ending conflagration Wagner intended for the ending was a fire-free anticlimax at the bottom of an empty pool.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023

But as quickly as the crisis began, it ended abruptly in a type of anticlimax one day later as Prigozhin's forces stopped their march on Moscow, stood down, and agreed to return to their barracks.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2023

We had hiked twenty-two miles in two days—a highly respectable distance for us—but a distinct listlessness and sense of anticlimax, a kind of midmountain lassitude, had set in.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson