Crescendo Sentence Examples

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  • The sound began as light pecks on the window, and quickly grew to a crescendo of crashing rocks.

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  • Glamour photography hit its crescendo during World War II.

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  • A roar rose like in a great crescendo from the crowd.

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  • Being an Italian opera, the work was imbued with great passion, each act rising to a dramatic crescendo.

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  • The writer makes the reader wait for this, the relative clauses in commas (analyzed above) creating a crescendo.

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  • The page of history becomes a long crescendo of battle.

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  • The Ripper was, by now, reaching a crescendo of violence.

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  • It sounded fantastic and came to an end with a thrashing guitar crescendo.

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  • But no - there was the " scream and shout " crescendo, and the band blasted out the long coda.

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  • I'd got to the point where I'd got a 20-minute, 40-minute, hour-long set that built crescendo and got laughs.

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  • This gives way to a quieter passage but which leads to the most thrilling gradual crescendo.

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  • Its ending, as ambulancewoman Kay discovers the fate of her lover Helen, is my personal emotional crescendo.

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  • A banner rolls down an office block and the cheering reaches a deafening crescendo.

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  • That is, until the final crescendo, which ties up all the loose ends of the earlier exploits.

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  • However, back to the dastardly plot... The books have been plunging head first toward a crescendo of an ending for sometime now.

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  • William Breeze brings the track to a fitting end with layered electric viola rising to crescendo.

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  • Incomplete as was his career - he was not quite thirty-two - his life was cut short in a crescendo of all its nobler elements.

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  • The Batman melody that is expected is nestled into the undertones, climbing dramatically upwards into the crescendo and falling gently downward, back into the flow.

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  • This was a yet further cause of the equating of the two parts of the sacred volume, which went on with an imperceptible crescendo through the first three quarters of the 2nd century, and by the last quarter was fairly complete.

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  • Since the cars are high performance machines, you'll hear them whine to a crescendo, then pop the exhaust as if it's backfiring.

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  • Manor, Sparcraft, Sparlane, Crescendo and Carousel are a few Spartan trailer models.

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  • Cathedral Chorus - About five minutes in length, this last section begins softly, but climbs to a rousing crescendo with trombones and percussion.

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  • Crescendo Alarm - These alarms get gradually louder until they are switched off.

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  • Daytime dramas are serialized and are meant to be watched day in and day out in order to see storylines build, crescendo and rebuild once again.

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  • The theme for most Flamenco music is based around a woman's estranged or abusive lover and so often starts very quiet and subdued, signifying the woman's sadness, then drawing to a crescendo of feminine empowerment.

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