diminuendo

Example Sentences

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For the “Flower Song” from “Carmen,” Tetelman cushions the contours of his phrases, hooks into high notes without breaking the musical line and nails the diminuendo on the high B flat.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

Just as the emotional transformation reaches its climax, the music startles with a shimmering, introspective diminuendo that drifts down from the heavens, a passage Ms. Netrebko navigates with trembling and bewitched delicacy.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2018

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

Farther on, a noisy squirrel filled the woods with his running-down-clock-works diminuendo as the intruder passed him.

From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert