climactic
Example Sentences
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The emotional combustion of his climactic scenes with Willy fail to reach cathartic levels.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
The now pulsing, now soaring strains of Prokofiev’s climactic “Balcony Scene” are enacted solely on screen as recorded by Mr. Marcovici’s camera.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
And that’s precisely why the franchise’s disappointed fans and their frustrated allies spent the months ahead of the seventh installment’s February 27 release spreading and spoiling all of the film’s climactic reveals.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026
That aside, the film’s barrage of scenes, sketches, shout-outs and absurdist scenarios leading up to the climactic wine-making championship are largely harmless flights of farce.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
Even so, I was looking forward to what I hoped would be a climactic amble.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing climactic
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