anticlimax

Example Sentences

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Pulp guitarist Mark Webber told 6 Music's Lauren Laverne the show had been "a slight anticlimax, to be honest".

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025

Obviously, another book at this time about exactly the same subject would be a sad anticlimax!

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024

In Bluff, the sun rose on an anticlimax.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 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

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