escalate

How To Use escalate In A Sentence

• The decision to escalate UN involvement has been taken in the hopes of a swift end to the hostilities.
• The gorillas 'behaviour has strong similarities to the children's game tag, but is perhaps more like a playful exchange of punches that must be well-judged to ensure it does not escalate into a more serious fight. Gorillas learn about injustice and revenge by playing tag
• The threat to foreign contractors has escalated in the past month following a series of kidnappings and murders.
• The promise was made on November 8th in order to de-escalate the stand-off with police who were preparing to attack those inside the building as well as their supporters on the street.
• The term escalate became popular during the Vietnam War and refers to the United States' significantly increasing its involvement, but the term also carries an undertone of blunder. Site Home
• Am I remorseful that it got out of hand and escalated into mass hysteria?
• The Soviet Union tested its own hydrogen bomb within a year, and the nuclear arms race escalated further.
• Our group largely agreed but added that the police response to our actions would play a decisive role in how far things would escalate.
• Since his ouster violence has escalated in the capital.
• Hopping from heist to heist, with the fuzz getting ever closer, the rivalry that has flared escalates and the cracks in this already untenable threesome begin to widen.