crescendo

Example Sentences

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By this time, the clamour to stop playing Suryavanshi at the age-group level, even against players five years older than him, had reached a crescendo.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

That could mean investors are in for more pain ahead, as major selloffs typically reach their crescendo as the volatility gauge peaks.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

The moment marked the crescendo of a whirlwind weekend for the president and his team, with Trump using his glitzy Mar-a-Lago residence as a home base for monitoring the unfolding attack.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

"The main difficulty is respecting the score's crescendo and keeping your energy and strength intact until the big leaps, when your legs start to burn," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

In the orchard the bees sounded like a wind getting up, a sound caught by a spell just under crescendo and sustained.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner