crescendo

How To Use crescendo In A Sentence

• As the song reaches a crescendo, she drops to her knees, lost in the raw emotion of her thoughts. Times, Sunday Times
• The noise outside had risen to a deafening, ear-splitting crescendo.
• It is as this dissonant crescendo of drama builds that the novel's cleverness reveals itself.
• This will be almost falsetto but will have enough heaviness to enable the singer to crescendo smoothly.
• Soon the wind rose to a crescendo as it tore through trees and over roof tops.
• The words dropped from her lips in a sibilous crescendo as her blood drove her to a display of emotion. A Virginia Scout
• The misconceived refusal to give Charlie Adam a penalty and send off Philippe Senderos on the hour, a spoilsport decision to disallow a goal for Luis Suárez midway through the second half and a red card for the young midfielder Jay Spearing a few minutes later prefaced a crescendo of Fulham attacking which ended with a dreadful Pepe Reina error and a decisive tap-in for Clint Dempsey. Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams
• I heard him ask, but his voice was just a faint decrescendo.
• That monotony of form, those commonplace cadenzas, those endless bravura passages introduced at haphazard irrespective of the dramatic situation, that recurrent _crescendo_ that Rossini brought into vogue, are now an integral part of every composition; those vocal fireworks result in a sort of babbling, chattering, vaporous mucic, of which the sole merit depends on the greater or less fluency of the singer and his rapidity of vocalization. Gambara
• And if her low register was occasionally underpowered near the end, she made up for it with a dramatic diminuendo/crescendo combination on her final, effortlessly floated high note. Lindstrom Shines as Last-Minute Soprano in 'Turandot'