How to Use climax in a Sentence

climax

1 of 2 noun

• The movie's climax is a fantastic chase scene.
• At the novel's climax, the main character finds herself face to face with the thief.
• The protest in May was the climax of a series of demonstrations in the nation's capital.
• The trial reached a climax late last month when Mr. Bankman-Fried took the stand.
  — J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• But these threads don't wind their way to some big climax.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 21 Apr. 2023
• But neither was good enough when the game reached its climax.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2024
• Not just war or an action climax born of fire and death, but the loss of nature.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2022
• While the week had its oohs and ahs, and lots of laughs at meals, the climax came the day before departure.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2024
• The climax arrives when the sergeant conducts a surprise roll call.
  — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• The song aired at the climax of the season finale last night (September 24).
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 25 Sep. 2023
• The dispute reached a climax on June 23, when Prigozhin turned his fighters around to march on Moscow.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• In the film’s climax, Neary leaves his family—and the planet—behind.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
• The scene reaches its climax when the rocker’s character slaps both of his sons.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 22 Oct. 2023
• That fear grew to a climax a month after Ramy debuted and Youssef was deep in prayer one day at his mosque.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 July 2023
• No shame there—most of us have been fed a lot of confusing ideas about how women reach climax.
  — Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2022
• The conflict is the climax of rapidly growing violence that has brought the country to its knees over the past two years.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2024
• The chandelier always swings over the pit, marking the beginning of the show, and then comes crashing down at the climax of Act 1.
  — Maria Clara Cobo Todd Heisler, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• The game’s climax left Druckmann, then a student, transfixed.
  — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• At the climax of a strip routine, a young woman in silhouette arches back across a chair and pulls a cord.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• Their cheers reached a climax when Mullins hit a sacrifice fly to center field that scored Rutschman with the winning run.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 17 Sep. 2023
• The climax of this parade was the river crossing on the Bir-Hakeim bridge, which is a double-decker: the métro shares it with a roadway.
  — Andrew Martin, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2024
• Elaine goes to work on her own orgasm, climaxes, and then goes quiet.
  — Cat Cardenas, Vulture, 13 June 2023
• The track even figures in the film’s big inspirational climax.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• Because of structural changes in the movie adaptation, Alia is still unborn by the climax of the second film.
  — Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
• The scene came to an emotional climax on a craggy island as the cub strained to pull itself ashore and then labored up the rock face.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
• For most other martial arts sagas, this would be the jaw-dropping climax of the entire story.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
• Stirring climaxes filled the room, but never got crude.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2023
• But one episode is a genuine jaw-dropper, and its climax is a death match between a mother and daughter.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
• At the climax of Cukor’s film, Paula confronts her husband with the truth of his manipulations.
  — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Omar, this big romantic climax comes as Simon is potentially leaving behind this life he’s built in Bjärstad.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024

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climax

2 of 2 verb

• The movie climaxes with a fantastic chase scene.
• The May protest climaxed a series of demonstrations in the nation's capital.
• But that’d be a mistake at this show: Yes, the show has already climaxed 25 times, and this is the wind-down.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Aug. 2023
• Everything else — even a first-and-goal at the one — climaxed with three points.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
• That climaxes here in the scene when Jon is talking to Will and Angela at once, 10 years apart.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• The plot climaxes with Posh taking the wheel of their tour bus in her strappy stilettos, and saving the day.
  — New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• Set to an upbeat tune in the key of Kander and Ebb, the song climaxes in a dance routine with trash can lids for tap shoes.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Halfback Steve Farley climaxed the drive with a plunge into the end-zone from one yard out.
  — Post-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2017
• The protests at the border are meant to climax on May 15, the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Israel.
  — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Apr. 2018
• The story would have climaxed with the birth of Ellie, which is now the sequence that kicks off the season 1 finale episode of the HBO adaptation.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• The overnight downing of the Global Hawk drone in June seemed to climax a campaign of escalation that would draw in Trump.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2019
• Lindsay-Hogg and his crew were on hand to make a documentary about the process, which was all supposed to climax with a TV special.
  — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
• Sunday night will climax with sets from Chaka Khan and Lauryn Hill.
  — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 17 May 2018
• The novel climaxes with a virtuosic burst of cross-cutting chapters — from a police raid to a hit job in progress.
  — Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2017
• For the Rangers to climax this year’s spending spree on pitchers with the Eovaldi signing was a remarkable third act for Young.
  — Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2023
• That pick in 2020 set in motion a bizarre, slow-moving chain of events that climaxed this offseason in a drama about Rodgers’s future.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2023
• That pursuit climaxes this week, a pivotal one in the reshaping of this franchise.
  — Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2018
• The standoff on the ladder appears to climax just as June exhausts her reserve of good parenting.
  — Fiona Maazel, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• The popular unrest in London climaxed in the Gordon Riots of 1780.
  — Russell Shorto, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• Did you guys always know that the movie would climax in that World Series moment where Kit is running to home plate and Dottie’s there trying to stop her?
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2022
• Refresh this page throughout the hour to get the latest updates, which will climax when the nominees for album, record, song and new artist are revealed.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Nov. 2021
• Many women take longer to climax than their male partners, and that's perfectly normal, says Stern.
  — Sarah Jio, Woman's Day, 2 June 2016
• Evert is nonetheless set on Sparsholt, and the tension between them climaxes at last in a dorm-room seduction.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2011
• The track, which climaxes with a sax solo, comes before Jai Wolf’s Coachella performance in April.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2023
• Inherent in this is the feeling of the climb to climax, that things are becoming more intense and moving toward something.
  — Leigh Cowart, The Cut, 15 Dec. 2017
• In popular culture, the stride of pride always climaxes during the coffee run.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• An hour ago, after thirty minutes of pumping and winding on the mattress, the two of us finally managed to climax.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• The performance climaxes, then slinks on, crests again and continues.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 July 2018
• The hour climaxed with Bob Odenkirk winning an Emmy, probably, with a burst of florid hallway egomania.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2020
• This inability to be in the moment can affect your ability to climax.
  — Claire Fox, refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2023

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