How to Use crescendo in a Sentence

crescendo

noun
  • The noise rose to a crescendo.
  • July might’ve been the crescendo of this year, right?
    — Colin Bedell, Them., 26 Aug. 2025
  • The thought hardly goes through my mind when my reel pipes a high crescendo.
    — Ralph Tuttle, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026
  • As the crescendo builds, there’s yet more noise from outside the bar.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Jones has been part of the program during a crescendo and rapid flop.
    — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2022
  • And this, perhaps, gives us a taste of things to come as the bull run nears its crescendo.
    — Charles Wayn, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • But in recent months, the discord has reached a new crescendo.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • By the end, your teeth are buzzing from the sheer multitude of sparkles and crescendos.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Things sure seemed to reach a crescendo with the show's finale season this year, though.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
  • There is to be no goal, no moment of crescendo for the Brazilian.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • For that reason, research across physics is now building to a crescendo.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Carey often slowly brings songs to a crescendo and then proceeds to play around or against them with all his strength.
    — Mitch Therieau, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The song builds to a crescendo and is only cut when the referee’s whistle blows.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The song builds to a crescendo, but it is only cut when the referee’s whistle blows.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Every bite unleashes a spicy, smoky, salty, creamy crescendo.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • And Ballhalla had a new crescendo.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Soon, though, the song slowed to a gospel-style interlude before swelling again to a joyous crescendo.
    — Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2022
  • In bleak midwinter, the wind swirls, the cold bites and grumbles over transport reach a crescendo.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The strikeout of Trout served as Sunday’s crescendo.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The drip on display in Los Angeles crescendos as the day goes on.
    — Nichelle Dailey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The former features her rich, layered vocals as the song builds into a lux crescendo.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The nation will be watching the crescendo of college Week 1.
    — Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Her oratory rose and fell in cycles, then climbed to a final crescendo.
    — Kevin Lee, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2022
  • John Harbaugh looked up as the noise built to a crescendo on Saturday.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • 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
  • Quinn’s vocals wandered from a delicate line of psychedelia to a growling crescendo.
    — Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2022
  • More husbands began noticing the matching attire, and the prank reached its crescendo.
    — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025

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