How to Use crescendo in a Sentence

crescendo

noun

• The noise rose to a crescendo.
• By the end, your teeth are buzzing from the sheer multitude of sparkles and crescendos.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2023
• The engine whined to life and reached a roaring crescendo.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• The noise of the onlookers rose to a crescendo of screams as the ball hurtled toward the pins: Strike!
  — Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The last canon is a fast crescendo and a brilliant finish.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
• Jones has been part of the program during a crescendo and rapid flop.
  — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2022
• But in recent months, the discord has reached a new crescendo.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• For Chick-fil-A franchisee Troy Seavers, the complaints hit a crescendo in 2020.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• Things sure seemed to reach a crescendo with the show's finale season this year, though.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
• The drip on display in Los Angeles crescendos as the day goes on.
  — Nichelle Dailey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• Tense music builds to a crescendo, like in a horror movie.
  — Rina Raphael, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• Back on that busy spring night, the band just ended its break, as the drummer begins a crescendo into the start of the next set on his snare.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• The crescendo of excitement as a ball flies into the air toward the outfield.
  — Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
• The song reached its rock crescendo as the siblings jammed out onstage above the aforementioned set, joined by a full drum kit.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2022
• New Blue Sun also marks a peak in the decade-long crescendo of hipsterati new age revival.
  — Christopher R. Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
• Soon, though, the song slowed to a gospel-style interlude before swelling again to a joyous crescendo.
  — Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2022
• Faced with the crescendo of #MeToo fury, Millennium did a quick 180.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2023
• For that reason, research across physics is now building to a crescendo.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• The action grows louder and more frenetic over the course of 30 minutes, reaching a crescendo as the first game nears its end.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• And the documentary's crescendo shows the impact she's had on young fans around the globe, by following her dreams.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2022
• More than half its body rose straight from the water, then crashed down in a crescendo of spraying seawater.
  — Alex Pulaski, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
• After the formation lap, the collective engine soundtracks reached a crescendo as the 20-car field fired off on the first of 57 laps.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 8 May 2023
• All with a 3-month-old daughter, Mila, and all while the men’s World Cup came to an operatic crescendo.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• The former features her rich, layered vocals as the song builds into a lux crescendo.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
• When Jordan Spieth, ranked No. 17, yanked his five-or-so-foot birdie putt, however, the boos reached a crescendo.
  — Joe Drape Doug Mills, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• Then, just as the speculation was reaching a crescendo, came the photo.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2024
• The only thing more life-affirming than that lyric is the soaring guitar lead that brings the song to a glorious crescendo.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2022
• Sometimes the editing is slow; at others, quick cuts build in a crescendo to a gripping and moving finale.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
• Advertisement Under gray skies in the downtown core of the region, the snow seemed to reach an eye-filling, big-flaked crescendo around noon.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
• As that mid-song journey hit its crescendo, the crowd let out a roar — and some folks around me literally leapt — as Urban brought it home.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024