diminuendo

Example Sentences

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Later, after a short diminuendo featuring Joachim’s gorgeous live singing and those choppy, sampled vocals, the full-band dynamic returns, now with fiery lines from Joachim’s flute.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024

It wasn’t an anticlimax — more like a 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

As each wave rolls in—booming, roaring, growling, hissing—I listen to its voice: the unique contours of its rising and falling, its singular crescendo and diminuendo.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2015

He was still shouting his declaration of outlawry, and the diminuendo of tone indicated that he was running like a deer.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman