Sample Sentences fordenouement (editor-reviewed)
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The novel's denouement revealed the true identity of the mysterious stranger, tying together all the loose ends of the plot.denouement = outcome
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Everyone was astonished by the denouement of the case.
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She remembered reading them in Mr. Pierce's seventh-grade English class, talking about symbolism, metaphors, and denouement. (source)denouement = the final resolution of the main complication of a literary work
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Upon hearing this denouement, the Count felt a great sense of relief.† (source)
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Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.† (source)
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I now had a choice of slipping away and insulting my host or staying and becoming entangled in Chablis's inevitable denouement.† (source)
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Her story was as full of desperation and despair as her limited acquaintance with those uncomfortable emotions enabled her to make it, and having located it in Lisbon, she wound up with an earthquake, as a striking and appropriate denouement.† (source)
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Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive.† (source)
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It was not until close upon six o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery.† (source)
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He began laughing and as he laughed, he moved in with amazing speed and grace for the denouement.† (source)
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Finally, he summed up the dénouement in Gosseberga which led to Salander's being shot and buried alive, and explained how a policeman's death was a needless catastrophe because Niedermann had already been captured.† (source)
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I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other, A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste; What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?† (source)
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I thought there was going to be a denouement of tragic scope.† (source)
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The tension began to build, and I found myself clutching the telescope as I waited for the denouement, wondering what had prompted George's swift transformation.† (source)
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After years of watching women quietly accept abuse, it is cathartic to see someone like Usha lead a countercharge—even if we're uncomfortable with the bloody denouement and cannot condone murder.† (source)
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Berger and Eriksson had talked through what needed to be done, but the immediate situation was complicated by the fact that Blomkvist and Berger knew what role Salander had played in the denouement of the Wennerström affair—in her capacity as elite-level hacker she had been Blomkvist's secret source.† (source)
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