Climax means: A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order. Related words include level or degree. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Climax in practice.
Climax in a sentence
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Climax meaning
- A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
- An instance of such an ascending series.
- The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
Example sentences (20)
Next autumn, the biggest ecclesiastical listening exercise ever undertaken by a pope will come to a contested climax.
It sounds like similarly, you have your thematic climax, you just don't know how you're going to get there quite yet.
At the climax of the movie, Sally needs to build herself a coven to help get rid of the spirit of Gilly's ex for good.
But what truly sells the emotion of the film is when Fontaine comes face to face with the clones in the film's climax.
Die Hardman’s confession in particular is well remembered for its key character development and dramatic climax.
And things reached a heartbreaking climax when Evelyn emotionally confessed that Tyrone thinks his mum is dead.
The deaths come very early in the film, and a number of characters get maimed or dismembered before the movie’s climax.
However, the climax of the fight between the Straw Hats and the captain of the Black Cat Pirates was slightly different.
On X (formerly Twitter), Sister Wives fans shared their thoughts about hearing Kody speak of a sexual climax.
Players can easily miss the LE 5 if they are rushing toward the game's climax, which is a shame as it can be quite useful.
The fight between Boruto and Kawaki, shown in the initial flash-forward, has always been teased as the climax of the series.
The climax is laugh out loud funny and there are a few gags that worked but I smiled more than I laughed.
Her shocking treatment came to a climax when she was beaten in a “frenzied, violent assault” between 9 and 12 September 2022.
Muslims from around the world congregated on Saturday at a sacred hill in Saudi Arabia for the climax of the Hajj pilgrimage.
New Japan will return with the G1 Climax, which kicks off on the 20th July - make sure you don't miss it.
It’s her story — and Val’s connection with her — that sparks hope and sets in motion the novel’s climax.
So I’m torn… the climax probably makes sense, but I still feel like it could have been… “more” somehow.
Sunday’s and Monday’s parades are the climax: sumptuous festivals of color and sound that last all night and into the next day.
Early on, Taylor shows a brief clip of this sequence, which cynics might think of as a way to tantalize with the shocking climax.
Alaska and Russia have vast areas of unaltered habitat, including in many areas, the climax canopy.
Common combinations with climax
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the climax 68×
- climax of 45×
- climax to 13×
- to climax 12×
- its climax 8×
- climax with 6×
- climax that 6×
- climax is 5×
- climax on 4×
- climax and 4×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word climax. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.