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.
  • But that’s not quite the climax.
    — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • But the game saves its climax for the big screen.
    — Kennedy French, Variety, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The climax of the film is as over the top as the rest of the movie.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • This is the climax of the movie and the soundtrack.
    — Charlie Harding, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • That leads us to the climax of the story.
    — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026
  • But neither was good enough when the game reached its climax.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Many owners feel a deep sense of anti climax.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • 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 climax sputters a bit, the rest is taut and engrossing.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Elaine goes to work on her own orgasm, climaxes, and then goes quiet.
    — Cat Cardenas, Vulture, 13 June 2023
  • The climax arrives when the sergeant conducts a surprise roll call.
    — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 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
  • Each episode has its own climax and buildup; everything’s so crazy and insane.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In the play’s climax, the hero is stripped naked and lashed to a horse, which is sent galloping across the stage.
    — Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR Daily, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The pattern continued all the way to the climax.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Rice looked exhausted a few weeks back but returned to form as the season reached its climax.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • The end of this episode felt like the climax of a Scooby-Doo cartoon.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The scene reaches its climax when the rocker’s character slaps both of his sons.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 22 Oct. 2023
  • For one, the gang war in Kingstown reaches a violent climax.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Dec. 2025
  • But the surprising climax, plus an amusing coda, brings it all home.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 26 Jan. 2026
  • There’s no question that the series delivers a climax that more than lives up to the title.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The track even figures in the film’s big inspirational climax.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • For most other martial arts sagas, this would be the jaw-dropping climax of the entire story.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
  • There was an overwhelming sense that things were heading toward the climax so many wanted.
    — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023

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.
  • Everything else — even a first-and-goal at the one — climaxed with three points.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In my eyes, the album truly climaxes in the title track.
    — Allaire Nuss, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
  • So why did Harry feel the need to climax the song by racing three extra loops around the entire floor?
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2026
  • Halfback Steve Farley climaxed the drive with a plunge into the end-zone from one yard out.
    — Post-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2017
  • That pursuit climaxes this week, a pivotal one in the reshaping of this franchise.
    — Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The performance climaxes, then slinks on, crests again and continues.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • Much of what’s described seems to climax with personal achievement, rather than anything having to do with others.
    — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
  • This inability to be in the moment can affect your ability to climax.
    — Claire Fox, refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Sunday night will climax with sets from Chaka Khan and Lauryn Hill.
    — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 17 May 2018
  • Such stories invariably climax with a great victory or a crushing defeat, a life-changing play right at the buzzer.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • In popular culture, the stride of pride always climaxes during the coffee run.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The film includes a famous chase scene and climax in which Bond is pursued on a motorbike on the Cortina ski slopes.
    — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 4 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Her insistence that she’s being hit on and asides about ketchup for her steak climax with a note-perfect response to the news that the restaurant has received some complaints.
    — Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
  • At one point, the script prominently featured Hobbs, with the story climaxing in the destruction of Rio.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 24 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The widespread assumption has always been that the female orgasm is innately tricky, but data show that lesbians climax almost as often as men do.
    — Melanie Thernstrom, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The hour climaxed with Bob Odenkirk winning an Emmy, probably, with a burst of florid hallway egomania.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2020
  • 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

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