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Meanings of climax in English
Usage of climax in English
1
Find examples of climax; of contrast; of parallel structure; of biblical language.
2
The climax is in the deliberate falsehood contained in the closing words.
3
The disagreement reached its climax in the very presence of the king.
4
In the end the climax of the love-making had been prosaic enough.
5
Famine and misery reached their climax in the country in that year.
6
But it is in the third letter that we get the climax.
7
But in a Gothic interior the climax is at the east end.
8
But the meeting reached its climax in the Sabbath morning Love Feast.
9
That hour in the Long Gallery last night had been the climax.
10
In one of his supreme stanzas he reserves Trafalgar for the climax:
11
That was the climax; I could not retract what I had said.
12
She brought him to a phenomenal climax, enhanced by its great guilt.
13
A climax is the climbing to the top rung of the ladder.
14
In the climax, Bahn's trained henchmen simply look on as Roger runs.
15
The climax is notably sceptical about the possibility of truth and reconciliation.
16
Here, now, came the climax; here the moment upon which everything depended.
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Translations for climax
Russian
Climax through the time
Climax across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common