Sample Sentences for
climax
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climax as in:  climax of the story

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    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets reaches its climax when Harry enters the chamber of secrets.
    climax = most exciting or intense part
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    Because this is the climax of the Hunger Games, and the audience expects a show.  (source)
    climax = the most exciting or important part
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    It took almost an hour and was the climax to a long evening of effort.  (source)
    climax = time of highest intensity
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    Mama and Papa were at the climax of debate in the combined bedroom and living room, their quiet voices trapped inside the corridor wall.  (source)
    climax = most exciting or important part
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    The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution.  (source)
    climactic = of highest intensity
    editor's notes: This adjective comes form the root word, climax.
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    There followed another quarter minute of heavy breathing, climaxed by a racking cough.†  (source)
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    As the movie reached one of its many climaxes, I giggled at something ridiculous and he said, "Are you enjoying this?"†  (source)
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    In January, 1851, climaxing a bitter twelve-day struggle among its three distinct parties—Benton Democrats, anti-Benton Democrats and Whigs—the Missouri Legislature on its fortieth ballot elected a Whig.†  (source)
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    Instead he went on to add, and then quite climactically for Clyde at that time, who had been sitting as one in a daze: "I suppose you are ready to go to work now, aren't you?"†  (source)
    editor's notes: This adverb comes form the root word, climax.
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    The song reached its climax: "Darkness like an endless night," sang the hundreds of voices, so powerfully the air seemed to shiver.  (source)
    climax = time of highest intensity
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    "By communing with woman," Langdon said, "man could achieve a climactic instant when his mind went totally blank and he could see God."  (source)
    climactic = most intense
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    The elf-maids accelerated to an inhuman speed and the music climaxed in a frenzy of chanted phrases.†  (source)
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    As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times.†  (source)
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