diminuendo

Example Sentences

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Or they are compulsively lifted to the rise of a melody, then put down on the diminuendo.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Saints meanwhile are coming off the back of their no-show in the FA Cup semi, and, with relegation a fate unlikely to befall them, face an elongated diminuendo to their season.

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2021

Seems to me that that last exchange between Paige and Elizabeth wasn't just a random diminuendo.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2017

In Mitchell’s case, the diminuendo was especially long, and his continued expectations for himself much higher.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2015

Any other country would have sulkily responded, “Blake—ake—ake—ake,” in diminuendo to the end of the chapter.

From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James