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Climax
"Climax" in a Sentence (24 examples)
The audience sobbed throughout the climax of the movie.
The game came to a climax.
All voices were extinguished in the climax.
Mary did not climax when she and Tom had their first sexual intercourse.
Tom doesn't know the difference between climax and climacteric.
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
I am reaching the climax.
The information was the capping climax.
Some analysts predict the probe could be headed for an epic climax in 2019 that could have a huge impact on the next presidential race in 2020.
A five-year-long debate over U.S. agriculture policy neared a climax this week as controversial farm legislation moved toward a final vote in the U.S. Senate.
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Ye haue a figure which as well by his Greeke and Latine originals […] may be called the marching figure […] and goeth as it were by ſtrides or paces; it may aſwell by called the clyming figure, for Clymax is as much to ſay as a ladder,[…]
Climax, by steps advancing, onward goes Higher and still more high to an impassion'd close.
[…]Expressions for the whole Climax of sensibility[…]
The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times.
In the accomplishment of this, they frequently reach the climax of absurdity.
When he adds epithets of praise, his climax is ‘so English’.
The succession of associations leading to a climax represents the process of adjustment to the conditions of stress, and the climax represents a condition of relative equilibrium. Climax associations[…] are the resultants of certain climatic, geological[…] conditions.
In many cases the man's climax comes so swiftly that the woman's reactions are not nearly ready.
What's the use of bringing some high schooler to climax?
Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off.
Frank had two bouts in October of 1954, losing them both, and then climaxed his career with a 6-round decision victory over Mickey Warner on December 1, 1954.
I have never been able to climax during sex. Is my masturbation style to blame? [title]
A group of about 50 people, mostly young adults and teenagers, charged into a city park where gay people were having a swimming party on June 8. Gay people were attacked, climaxing a year in which this conservative Ohio city [Cincinnati] has become aware of its gay population.
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