diminuendo

Example Sentences

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The Philharmonic’s other soloists included the soprano Sherezade Panthaki, who scrupulously shaped her music by approaching top notes with a diminuendo.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2022

In Mitchell’s case, the diminuendo was especially long, and his continued expectations for himself much higher.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2015

As each wave rolls in—booming, roaring, growling, hissing—I listen to its voice: the unique contours of its rising and falling, its singular crescendo and diminuendo.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2015

In Limonov, as a writer in search of a narrative line, Carrère struggles with this diminuendo.

From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2014

For an hour longer a diminuendo of gasps and gurgles rattled in its racked throat.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)