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'
It seems that the source of Herman's queasiness is rooted in concerns about the property market in Southern Europe, many having holiday homes in the Med; growing commentary on the decline of Southern Europe's economies; a growing crescendo of remarks from Southern Eurpean politicians that are perceived as threatening the independence of the European Central Bank, a sine qua non for Germans to give up the Deutschmark; and a sudden ramping up of German inflation to an official 8.1% (which, if our own experience is anything to go by significantly underplays the reality). Archive 2008-06-08
We were out on the track for 15 minutes and the sound was this crescendo building up. Times, Sunday Times
A note of melancholy swelled to a crescendo, then, dissipated into the breeze with a diminuendo.
His sluggish response kicked off a crescendo of criticism, prompting calls for him to resign from within his own coalition.
“Free doughnut holes?” she started out quiet, then gradually crescendoed. Love, Death and Doughnut Holes « A Fly in Amber
The drums were building to a crescendo now, hammering out their rhythmic beat to drive the men on. Man of Honour
That crescendo builds up, you are on your own and think you have to do something.
The music swelled to a crescendo
I entered just as the choir practice reached a triumphant crescendo. Times, Sunday Times
As the song reaches a crescendo, she drops to her knees, lost in the raw emotion of her thoughts. Times, Sunday Times
The band, having recognised the song, started to play, building up to the crescendo.
The two embraced as the applause grew to a crescendo.
Students were able to hear and see specifically the beat on which the artist took a rubato in the phrase or where a crescendo began and how the musical lines were woven together.
The Firvulag throng was now almost out of control, straining close to the platform on their side of the field and making an uproar of derisive twitters, growls, and a deep bourdon drone of humming that now reached a crescendo of maddening whole-tone intervals. The Golden Torc
It crescendoed and tipped off at an intensely sharp note.
Written at the time of the Good Friday agreement, and especially poignant now, in the wake of the conclusion of the Bloody Sunday inquiry, "Sunrise" chews over the disputed names of the towns of Hannon's birth and youth, (London) derry and Enniskillen (aka Inis Ceathlain), before mounting to a moving crescendo: "Who cares where national borders lie?" he croons. An Evening of Political Song; The Duckworth Lewis Method; Seasick Steve
The crescendo and decrescendos of Zacks' third track, to me, stand for the successes and failures of existence.
The global outcry had reached a crescendo. The Sun
Grandpa Favre’ s play as the season wears is known to decrescendo, and this has already been one of the southern slinger’ s worst outings in his illustrious career. The interim coach vs. the replacements
For example, Fabio Grasso has a tendency to end phrases with a dying fall; a slight ritard and decrescendo.
Over the next six days the attacks reached a crescendo. Times, Sunday Times
The torrent of knocks roared louder, slightly failed upon the ear, made a crescendo, emulated Niagara, surpassed that very American effort of nature, wavered, faltered to Lodore, died away to a feeble tittup like water dropping from a tap to flagstones, rose again in a final spurt that would have made Southey open his dictionary for adjectives, and drained away to death. The Prophet of Berkeley Square
It was a fitting crescendo to a remarkable exhibition.
The pounding beat, uplifting crescendos and psychedelic lights had just the right effect.
Reversing the crescendo pattern used by so many instrumental bands, the song begins with booming drums and layers of distorted bass, high-end guitars, and uplifting piano.
There are no melodramatic trills or fluting crescendos in her everyday speech.
The space resounded with the now-soft-now-rising-to-a-crescendo music.
A memorable phrase nicked from an article in the Jpost by Robin Shepherd entitled “New Era as British Hostility Reaches Crescendo” Archive 2009-07-22
Teaching students to discover this climax point of the phrase and focus their practice on executing a beautifully gradual crescendo / decrescendo becomes an addition to their strategies and goals.
The children's phased tambourine crescendo and diminuendo near the start was astonishing, like a leaf opening and then curling - James Blades, doyen of postwar percussionists, couldn't have managed it better.
There has been a rising crescendo of violence in the region.
The men were still exquisite, postured with their arms draped over their heads in stillness or lunging and leaping in wild fits as the Tchaikovsky score crescendoed. Susan Eley: Hooters to Swan Lake During One Week in New York
My voice crescendoed into a yell slowly throughout my speech, bringing up memories of events that I'd overcome.
Standing now, the applause reaches its crescendo, and she exits stage right.
The sound reached a crescendo, then trailed off to the south in a quickly fading Doppler echo.
_Crescendo e diminuendo_ -- same as _cresc. poi dim. Music Notation and Terminology
His poor control of a decrescendo on a long, high note in the first song rings alarm bells, and his richness of timbre deserts him in Serenade florentine.
The drums were building to a crescendo now, hammering out their rhythmic beat to drive the men on. Man of Honour
It began as an almost pleasant noise, but then grew to a crescendo.
Can our hero foil the discordant plans before they crescendo into an unharmonious climax of untold evil? Comic Review: Donald Duck and Friends #354 | Fandomania
Jonas's voice crescendoed steadily with every word.
Don't just squeeze your throats, use your abdominals," she said, as she led them in a crescendo that made the surfaces in the small studio buzz. Raising Their Voices as One
When motorized sounds roared and heavy gunfire crescendoed, he ran, so I ran too.
It all happened in a blur of speed and a thumping crescendo of sound. Times, Sunday Times
The whole video just crescendo’ed (horrible spelling?) in funniness. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This, my friends, made me laugh. Hard.
Repeat starting pianissimo and making a crescendo to forte and then a diminuendo.
Only gradually, in the weeks following publication, did the controversy rise to a crescendo. Times, Sunday Times
‘Dancing Raindrops’ encourages musical artistry with phrases notated with crescendo and decrescendo throughout.
What followed was a rising crescendo in which he saw glorious opportunities for the future, the future in particular of left-of-centre politics.
The first section of "Eri tu" is rendered in a splendidly firm, strong-lined legato, the words crystal-clear; it comes to an end with a decrescendo and portamento down from the top F on "guisa," a most expressive turn and acciaccatura on "primo," and a fermata at the end of the phrase. Conrad L. Osborne: Best Opera Critic Ever
It all happened in a blur of speed and a thumping crescendo of sound. Times, Sunday Times
The last chords of the suite build to a crescendo.
There's no heart-racing crescendo in "3 Umbrellas," the brightest and bounciest track here, just a gentle, glowing gallop. CD review 'Down There' by Avey Tare
The last chords of the suite build to a crescendo.
In The Apple in the Dark, written in Chevy Chase, Maryland, just before she left her marriage, a black humor, conveyed through decrescendo and juxtaposition, is the offsetting fruit: The Brazilian Sphinx
Otherwise, the same principles apply to this as would apply to the authentic Gregorian version: always legato, no breathing during words, crescendo through the pressus, etc. Deus, Deus Meus: Gregorian English
We waited a few seconds in silence, before we heard rhythmic footsteps crescendoing as a dim, short outline approached the door.
The final crescendo was stunningly articulated!
The advertising campaign reached a crescendo at Christmas.
The musical phraseology was convincing, and the crescendos and decrescendos were accurately measured and performed.
The cry of birds grew faint, a rapid decrescendo to something less than a whisper. Record of a Living Being
Freedom feeds fillip and flames of frenzy in a few freak cases, but if it reaches a more feverish frequency, somebody ought to remind those folks to tone down their rhetorical crescendo to a decrescendo level. Pelosi gets emotional about political climate
They had scrambled almost back to the road as the band's cacophony rose to a crescendo.
As Domenico takes it all in, the mimeograph crescendos into an echo of the city's roar.
Mr. Dimon's disdain for the process has been crescendoing for some time. Mr. Dimon Goes to Washington
Only gradually, in the weeks following publication, did the controversy rise to a crescendo. Times, Sunday Times
It bleats like a child at its father's wake, relentlessly pining to crescendo before it collapses, exhausted, in its mother's arms.
The efforts have been crescendoing as the U.S. government is due, by April 15, to decide whether China "manipulates" its currency. Zoellick: Chance for Yuan
Think swaggering verses, an uplifting chorus and a mighty brass crescendo perfect for ringing in the great British summer. The Sun
As the music evolved, each harmonic would crescendo but no harmonic would crescendo any louder than another.
Great hushes, mighty crescendos, time for every duplet and triplet to be grounded yet to resonate with momentum. Times, Sunday Times
These atmospherics dominate the track's entirety, sometimes swelling to a crescendo of volume, but often maintaining an uncomfortable stasis - one borne of quiet desperation and longing.
The climax occurred a little more than an hour in when John played a 10 minute version of ‘Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time) ‘that felt like it never was going to end with decrescendos and crescendos.’
When the trumpets entered, their ascending phrase was ritardando to a degree, allowing a gradual and more dramatic crescendo too.
I was dissatisfied with my execution of the crescendos and decrescendos in the ‘A Section’ of the work's scherzo movement.
The sharp buzz of the miter saw filled the backyard soon after, its noise gearing up to a tearing crescendo before tapering off to a low whine and then starting up again. O' Bending Light
He makes them dance for his pleasure, and you hear their breath come and go, in the swell and subsiding of those marvellous crescendos and diminuendos which set the strings pulsating like a sea.
As an alternative to using the mod wheel to move dynamics, you can use actual crescendo and diminuendo performances, mod wheel crossfading between the two when necessary.
The atmosphere in the stadium was fantastic, and with the roof closed, and the sound reaching a crescendo, it made the hairs on my neck stand up.
Any effort to stray from it felt like a light betrayal before crescendoing to a near blackout. It Wasn't Me.
The shouting rose to a deafening crescendo .
This is as lavish as off-Broadway gets, with David Gallo's cubistic set, Mark Dendy's hotblooded choreography and a terrific band led by Stephen Oremus, all marshaled by Barre into a crescendo of debauchery and death. The Two-Party System
Play the last four notes of each measure staccato, or make a crescendo into the next measure.
Soon, the faint pitter-patter crescendoed into the staccato of heavy drops falling on Heinrich's poncho.
They believe that if you try hard enough there's a steady crescendo of improvement and your fate is in your own hands.
Somewhere behind the storm, the orchestra achieved a primaeval crescendo. PASSION IN THE PEAK
A crescendo rises and threatens to explode, but vanishes, leaving all but a ripple of sound.
His voice fell into a decrescendo at the climax of his argument.
August is also a month for powerful thunderstorms, and for many places thunder and lightning this month reach their crescendo for the whole year. Times, Sunday Times
The tamasha over tickets has reached a feverish crescendo.
Intonation, a command of decrescendo and true unison, and just plain running out of breath become the technical challenges singers must meet.
In addition to the arresting song of the sila languet, the crescendoingmutter-mutter of colusai climbers filtered in from outside. Flinx's Folly
The music reaches a crescendo, and their eyes meet.
The advisor started chuckling softly to himself, and it grew and crescendoed into the same maniacal laughter that was coming out of the priestess's mouth far away.
When the coyotes howl it seems they are beyond the edge of the world, surely falling… or leaping over the plate's rim, taking their sad decrescendos with them.
As the music reached a crescendo, our instructor went into overdrive. Times, Sunday Times
Each piece has multiple tension points and crescendos to keep your ear engaged for a hard listen, but it honestly works best as background music.
I use other instruments, including the keyboard and bass guitar, to take my music to a crescendo.
As the music reached a crescendo, we held each other tighter. Times, Sunday Times
The gradual crescendo through the first movement is particularly exciting. Times, Sunday Times
‘Dancing Raindrops’ encourages musical artistry with phrases notated with crescendo and decrescendo throughout.
It all happened in a blur of speed and a thumping crescendo of sound. Times, Sunday Times
Forty male voices sang in spell-binding chorus, softening at moments and then rising, fortified, to a crescendo.
His voice, at first, had been soft but soon crescendoed into a bellow.
With a sudden explosion of baritone sax, trumpet, and guitar - plus a boxful of percussion toys - the whole song is one ecstatic, extended crescendo.
Marcy felt her breath quicken, her heartbeat accelerate and crescendo in her ears to an overpowering drone.
The drums were building to a crescendo now, hammering out their rhythmic beat to drive the men on. Man of Honour
*Shakes alleged HP by tail again, alleged HP squeaks molto crescendo e furioso* Watch while I prepare to dunk this alleged HP in the swimming pool with the large felines, and see what the alleged HP thinks of that, ladies nad gentlemen! Needs salt… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
But I hope that I may be allowed to point out a very grave misunderstanding and misattribution, and to protest the calumny with which the attack on me reaches its crescendo.
She turned it slightly, and the car started with a load roar, and then there was a decrescendo into an inviting purr… a weird combination of the traditional piston and the new-age rotary technology.
The story is built up through successive emotional crescendos, immediately downplayed by abrupt narrative shifts.
As the music reached a crescendo, our instructor went into overdrive. Times, Sunday Times
More laughter from the audience, which crescendoed as Kelly began actually discussing the things, in terms of their visual history and morphology.
The pain crescendoed, spiking in her toes and fingers, an exquisite throbbing that echoed the pounding of her heart. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The gradual crescendo through the first movement is particularly exciting. Times, Sunday Times
Comedy sound effects come to a crescendo as the abused machine finally collapses in a heap of scrap metal.
It's best to reach a crescendo of deep sharing that naturally leads to deep praying. Christianity Today
She is always in the groove of the phrase, which makes her crescendos and decrescendos seamless and undistorted.
I entered just as the choir practice reached a triumphant crescendo. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of merely playing the whole piece as softly as possible, we play opposite dynamics: forte where it should be piano, a decrescendo where there should be a crescendo.
The horse's gait changed to a gallop, and the muffled rhythm of the hoof beats crescendoed until they were uncannily loud and hollow.
The advertising campaign reached a crescendo at Christmas.
Perhaps most easily observed, is Obama's way of ending statements with a decrescendo – settling his statement into a soft landing in the deeper part of his baritone range. The 'Obama Effect' on Our Language
The shouting grew louder and to a crescendo as a door opened.
It all happened in a blur of speed and a thumping crescendo of sound. Times, Sunday Times
As the night melts in the heat of their music, the drumbeat reaches a crescendo.
Over the next six days the attacks reached a crescendo. Times, Sunday Times
The first section of "Eri tu" is rendered in a splendidly firm, strong-lined legato, the words crystal-clear; it comes to an end with a decrescendo and portamento down from the top F on "guisa," a most expressive turn and acciaccatura on "primo," and a fermata at the end of the phrase. Conrad L. Osborne: Best Opera Critic Ever
But one yearns for more of the chaotic bravado that drove their early work: amid dreamy harmonies and jangly guitar lines, only the crescendoing title track and rumbling freak-out "North Parade" truly catch fire. The Coral: Butterfly House
The advertising campaign reached a crescendo just before Christmas.
Time is simultaneously the star and an extra, protagonist and antagonist, the crescendo and the anti-climax, the narrative and an abstraction, the subject and the subtext - it's tangible and yet allusive. Rebecca Taylor: Christian Marclay Conquers Time
Eventually, the song peaks at a crescendo and dies away into atmospheric buzzes and computer blips.
The drums boomed, the bass often got lost in the mix under dueling guitars, and the dueling guitars crescendoed.
Her sudden piano followed by an immediate crescendo (surely a party piece!) was one of several delights delivered with real personality.
After a long crescendo, the theme appears on the whole orchestra, fortissimo, in an augmentation, and gives way to a sort of Dance before the Ark.
It was followed by a mournful decrescendo that filled the clearing with sadness.
It all happened in a blur of speed and a thumping crescendo of sound. Times, Sunday Times
The drama and performances from Canadian athletes skated, luged and snowboarded toward a crescendo of gold-medal finishes as the Olympiad progressed, Bibby says, with the hockey game providing "the perfect climax" to the Winter Games. Canada.com Top Stories
It was big and dramatic, filled with huge crescendos, loud guitars, overdubs, and strings, songs that shunned the slice of life stories of fans had come to love.
This wonderfully-illustrated edition of the poem, which is rarely reproduced in its entirety, begins in hushed suspense, and then builds into a dramatic crescendo as the rollicking verses usher in the mysterious midnight visitor.
And instant by instant the flood of varicolored flame that poured into its petalings down from the sapphire ovoids waxed and waned in crescendoes and diminuendoes of relucent harmonies — ecstatic, awesome. The Metal Monster
The musical phraseology was convincing, and the crescendos and decrescendos were accurately measured and performed.
Tapping the clock illuminates the display; a tap also turns off the alarm when it is ascending through its squeaky crescendo.
It breaks and builds to a crescendo, the classic flute section floating over the top.
Always a very passionate player, he allowed his emotions to build to a crescendo Saturday night, and while he still says it was not because of seeing his name ninth in the order, he did say, All the frustration came out. Boston.com Top Stories
Any abortive treatment must have a very rapid action because of the pain crescendo characteristic of these headaches.
The song crescendoed, and they both closed their eyes.
Zinman did not quite observe Elgar's arduous modulations, some within the span of a mere two-to-three bars, from crescendo and pianissimo to decrescendo and fortissimo.
From the incredibly crafted crescendo vocal parts for choirs, the dramaticism throughout, and amazing technacallity from all members, this song is definetly one of their best. Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
The global outcry had reached a crescendo. The Sun
The plonking accordion-driven sections of Radio / Video lull the listener into a false sense of security, before the band once again whip themselves up into a tense accelerando before ‘rocking out’ to a glorious crescendo.
As the engine races to a crescendo, we head off along what appears to be a new-mown field, then just as it dawns on me that this is the airstrip, we are airborne.
The tale of the supernatural is traditionally an art of slowly built crescendo: we know that eventual horrors begin with small intimations? that witnesses will at first be only mildly discomposed. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
As the music reached a crescendo, our instructor went into overdrive. Times, Sunday Times
The Jumbo Queen throne is rolled out onto the stage, and a drum roll builds to a crescendo.
Soon, the faint pitter-patter crescendoed into the staccato of heavy drops falling on Heinrich's poncho.
As the song reaches a crescendo, she drops to her knees, lost in the raw emotion of her thoughts. Times, Sunday Times
It is an acquired taste and is said to build in flavour like a classical crescendo. Times, Sunday Times
Not that there's any lack of huge, cavernous sound, and sound-effect; endless very slow, melody-free crescendos and diminuendos, uncanny thuds and knocks in the music's far distance, drones and whines and very-long-held notes that go up a semitone, stay there for a long time, and then slide back down again. Archive 2010-02-01
In the suit, Charming Shoppes says 10-year-old Crescendo has a "sordid history of greenmailing and corporate raiding," and it alleges the funds misrepresented their intentions. Boards Give Up Taming Act
We were out on the track for 15 minutes and the sound was this crescendo building up. Times, Sunday Times
As Smashie and Nicey, two dim but smug veteran platter-spinners, they parodied the worst kind of radio voices as crescendos of self-promotion and wannabe-trendy vocabulary.
The crescendo of firearms climaxed when a 20-year - old man accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend.
Speakers on the opposite wall emitted applause that grew to a crescendo and diminished.
We were out on the track for 15 minutes and the sound was this crescendo building up. Times, Sunday Times
Those efforts reached an emotional crescendo with the unveiling of Bernard Tschumi's $200 million showplace, which seems less an architectural event or a museological accomplishment than the costliest and craftiest weapon in a Kulturkampf of Homeric intensity and duration. Grading the New Acropolis
The men were still exquisite, postured with their arms draped over their heads in stillness or lunging and leaping in wild fits as the Tchaikovsky score crescendoed. Susan Eley: Hooters to Swan Lake During One Week in New York
Forty male voices sang in spell-binding chorus, softening at moments and then rising, fortified, to a crescendo.
The taste for melodramatic costume changes that seems to afflict the epoch's entire cast reaches a crescendo in a section devoted to the allegorical portrait. Times, Sunday Times
The applause rose to a crescendo and cameras clicked.
What one historian has called a maelstrom of retaliation and counter-retaliation built to a howling crescendo. Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – February – 19
A great babble of voices all rose to a crescendo of sound that could only be the prelude to panic.
However, the stellar moment of the evening was when the big galoot stood waving his arms as if to conduct a crescendo out of the band's final fermata, just stretching that devil's grin of his.
The incessant screech grew in a massive crescendo of sound, and made Vincent's entire body feel sickly and weak.
The mood on campus is building to a crescendo of excitement.
The music hit a crescendo as the dancers beneath the brightly lit lanterns increased the momentum of the dance.
News of Shake Shack trying to expand into other New York neighborhoods (with varying degrees of success) has crescendoed in recent months, and Shake Shack is set to open locations in other U.S. cities, plus a trifecta of Shake Shacks in the Middle East. Shake Shack Headed To DC: Where Else Is Danny Meyer's Burger Joint?
As the music reached a crescendo, we held each other tighter. Times, Sunday Times
She turns them all on so she can listen to the crazy chorus of crescendoing cacophony; it's a distressing dissonance like chattering chipmunks and chirping canaries conversing. Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Saw Lady
Over the next six days the attacks reached a crescendo. Times, Sunday Times
As the battle over health-care reform crescendoed last month, President Obama let slip that he was still making time for some side reading. For Obama and past presidents, the books they read shape policies and perceptions
As crescendo after crescendo uplifts the piece, the group becomes more and more abrasive and unforgiving.
Cicadas start to shrill, building to a crescendo that threatens to rupture eardrums.
It's also there in the way he ends notes in the verses, crescendoing and pitching up and then choking them off suddenly, cutting the sound short.
The taste for melodramatic costume changes that seems to afflict the epoch's entire cast reaches a crescendo in a section devoted to the allegorical portrait. Times, Sunday Times
Although many speakers struck bland notes individually, together these became a crescendo of shared concern.
Instead, it had more of a gradual crescendo, a spirit to it that demanded a faster movement.
And briefly, before the orchestra builds to a crescendo and I am hustled from the awards podium.
Any abortive treatment must have a very rapid action because of the pain crescendo characteristic of these headaches.
There is a crescendo, a sudden piano, a diminuendo and quiet ending in D.

How To Use Crescendo In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):