Sample Sentences foranticlimax (auto-selected)
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It was considered very anti-climactic in the Capitol, all those quiet, bloodless deaths. (source)anti-climactic = of a disappointing decline in excitement relative to a previous rise
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Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven — a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. (source)anti-climax = a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to the past
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When Eliza, Lindsay, and I all finally stood up to walk to the ambulance to get bandaged up, the crowd stood and gave us a standing O. We went on to win the game big, but my topple made everything else anticlimactic. (source)anticlimactic = a decline in excitement or interest relative to a what was previous
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I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.† (source)
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After all the buildup, it was a bit of an anticlimax, conceded the Count.† (source)
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He might regard my trial as an anticlimax.† (source)
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I find that even fear fades and becomes commonplace after days of anticlimax.† (source)
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If anything, it was kind of anticlimactic.† (source)
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To the white children the scene looked very prosaic: an anti-climax.† (source)
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At the end of the third week, as the waters slid back into their channels, Hugh Barton and his bride, crouched grimly in the great pit of the Buick, rode out through flooded roads, crawled desperately over ruined trestles, daring the irresistible wrath of water to achieve their wilted anti-climactic honeymoon.† (source)
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I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes—toward an infinity of unsatisfying and disagreeable endings.† (source)
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Rather anticlimactically, she adds, "A disgrace to the family."† (source)
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Then, softening her tone, she continued: "By truth, we mean things like the stars always being there and the sun always rising and the true nobility of man and mother-love and love for one's country," she ended anti-climactically.† (source)
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Meg felt that she would have liked to kiss Mrs Whatsit, too, but that after Charles Wallace, anything that she or Calvin did or said would be anticlimax.† (source)
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And then people's moms and dads were picking them up, and it was so anticlimactic after all that planning and anticipation.† (source)
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What was said in this disappointing anti-climax, by the disciples of the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, except that it was something very voluble and loud, would have been as so much Hebrew or Chaldean to Miss Pross and her protector, though they had been all ears.† (source)
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