diminuendo
Example Sentences
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Or they are compulsively lifted to the rise of a melody, then put down on the diminuendo.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 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
All that happened thereafter, until chances of escape occurred, was in a diminuendo of emotion.
From Caught by the Turks by Yeats-Brown, Francis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
