crescendo

Example Sentences

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Accompanying Hedda throughout is a choir of scooping notes, which by the film’s chaotic finale crescendo into a slightly horrific melee of wild vocals.

From Los Angeles Times

A crescendo is building, and the Rams might be best to ignore it.

From Los Angeles Times

Maybe you just need an energetic, gradually crescendoing pick-me-up in the middle of a long workday.

From New York Times

Otherwise, racing and golf possess strikingly similar elements that can make for good episodic television: a single-entity organization, reasonably interesting participants, a traveling circus schedule and crescendos of climactic conflict on Sunday afternoons.

From Los Angeles Times

He trembled and shut his eyes as the room wobbled and his anxiety crescendoed.

From Washington Post