crescendo

in a sentence

The sounds—clashes, clangs, screams, moaning wails, roars of engines, spinning saws, snapping blades, the screech of spikes against the floor, hair-raising pleas for help—it all grew to a crescendo, became unbearable.  (source) James Dashner, The Maze Runner, 2009

And when I felt like I could not take it one more minute, the swirl of sensations hit a dizzying crescendo, sending every nerve ending in my body on high alert.  (source) Gayle Forman, If I Stay, 2009

Then she expanded her field of action to the four blocks around her house and so on, gradually, until, in crescendo, she was sweeping all of Piedras Negras before going to school.  (source) Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate, 1992

The crowd started to clap, and money rained into the hat as the music built to a crescendo.  (source) Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song, 2009

The babble of voices crescendos.  (source) Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind, 1955

And the night behind them was filled with the crescendoing sound of pursuit.... That's Morgenstern's ending, a 'Lady or the Ti ger?' type effect (this was before 'The Lady or the Tiger?' remember).†  (source) William Goldman, The Princess Bride, 1973

As the song crescendoed, a row of daisies poked up from the dirt and unfurled toward her hands.†  (source) Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2011

The sharp, reverberating hoofbeats that moments ago had mixed into the surging sound of the river were now a crescendo upon me.  (source) Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima, 1972

He had been raised to appreciate music of sentiment and nuance, music that rewarded patience and attention with crescendos and diminuendos, allegros and adagios artfully arranged over four whole movements—not a fistful of notes crammed higgledy-piggledy into thirty measures.†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

He hears the crescendoing last chords of the national anthem and sees the great open horseshoe of the grandstand and that unfolding vision of the grass that always seems to mean he has stepped outside his life—the rubbed shine that sweeps and bends from the raked dirt of the infield out to the high green fences.†  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

Finally, as the shrieking was reach[ing] a crescendo, Bert reached over, hitting the volume button.  (source) Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever, 2004

No one comes out of any of the houses, even as the girl's voice crescendos to a high-pitched scream, like a siren going off.†  (source) Lauren Oliver, Delirium, 2011

For Anne the real excitement began with the dismissal of school and increased therefrom in crescendo until it reached to a crash of positive ecstasy in the concert itself.  (source) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables, 1908