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How to use climax in a sentence

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Both timelines converge at the end, when the movie reaches its powerful climax.
After a spectacular climax to the sequence, we are sucker-punched by a cliche.
At the novel's climax, the main character finds herself face to face with the thief.
The protest in May was the climax of a series of demonstrations in the nation's capital.
The climax, with all its moments of high drama and nail-biting tension, is classic adventure story stuff.
Once in a while a tennis match will reach its climax with both players convinced they are going to win until the last stroke of the last rally.
The climax of the film is a justly celebrated sequence in which the camera glides over a crowded dancefloor to pick out the true murderer.
Here are two real and affecting characters for whose reunion, at the ballet's climax, the choreographer made one of his most poetic pas de deux.
After the second climax, the music slows with a recapitulation of the opening theme and then fades to nothing.
Although each character's storyline is wrapped up, the climax is wishy-washy.
This may seem like it has the knottiness and subterfuge of a good spy thriller, but it fails as a drama because every climax is a false climax.
The climax of this film was a scene in which two thugs give Roy a working-over in a barn.
Traditionally, a musical climax is reached through the emotionally loaded swell of dynamics or harmonic resolution.
It is, however, important to remember that the climax of the whole shooting match does not arrive for the best part of 11 months.
Aided by filmic, reverberative music, Bosher keeps the tension wound to the horrifying climax when the cannibalistic horrors come tumbling out.
The climax of European imperialism in the nineteenth century coincided with the European population explosion.
The protracted climax, to a faint wash of sound, is a tableau in which the motionless dancers slowly levitate.
As the battle reached its climax the submariners continued to fight off their attackers with a handful of rifles and a Lewis gun.
With antiphonal brass stationed in the Lincoln Theater balcony, the orchestral climax was glorious.
Although this scene, like the climax of Halloween, begins in a bedroom, once the telephone rings we enter Krueger's dream world.
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Examples from Classical Literature
All things have their climax, and France is tending swiftly to the climax of her serfdom.
The sextet is well divided from the Octave, the climax is clearly underlined.
Eight meetings announced him as headliner, with Cooper Union as the climax.
The movement initiated by the priest of Abba island had attained its climax.
With a few exceptions, they are charged with no atmosphere and abut at no climax.
I wrote the yarn up in my junior year for an English comp., and tacked on the ghost feature as a sort of added climax.
The climax was reached in the quodlibet, when all joined in a sort of comic chorus.
They reached their climax at the moment when the two strata began to melt into one.
The story has now reached a point which I cannot help regarding as its climax.
What the collection of the taxes had begun was almost always brought to a climax by the corves.
The second is the cause or tragic impulse of the counteraction, and stands between the climax and the fall or untying of the knot.
It was a climax of discourtesy whose impression I must at all costs efface.
The first climax, however, is reached, and our scribe thinks it too sad for words.
Finally, the climax in her iniquities of mind and conduct reached its height and she was publicly denounced as a supralapsarian.
By way of a climax the last number on the programme should be illustrated by a tableau vivant.
He was aware that the deferring of a climax till it could be launched on a tide of tantalization was the chiefest of them.
The climax was reached at the next hole, when, with several strokes in hand, he topped his approach shot into a bunker.
These two genera represent the climax of development of the lycopod family.
As a revealer of character, Rembrandt reaches the climax of his power in his portraits.
Mrs. Martin had slowly and tortuously worked up to her climax, and she shot forth the last sentence with a jubilant ring.
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