How to Use denouement in a Sentence

denouement

noun
  • In the play's denouement, the two lovers kill themselves.
  • Fans will know the denouement, the murder at the end of the world will be solved.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 13 Nov. 2023
  • How could all of those plots and interests meet and find denouement?
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Both sides of his character get to shine in the film's denouement.
    — Sebastian Smee, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The eerily thrilling dénouement must be seen and heard to be believed.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025
  • That being said, the denouement is bonkers, and the final shot might just break your brain.
    — Time, 25 Oct. 2022
  • As the house guests play bingo, the play comes to a terrible denouement.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The rise, triumph, and seeming denouement of this hero have happened in about a week.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 28 June 2024
  • As a helpful timer ticks down the minutes, the denouement comes with just three seconds to spare.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • Like much of the war, this denouement was a long time coming but unfolded in a headlong rush.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
  • But somehow, a denouement that should pierce like a scalpel merely manages to open a paper cut.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • What the lama has in mind for the arms remains uncertain until the film’s denouement.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 July 2024
  • Her return to form in the denouement was heartening and a relief.
    — Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The third act is a bit rushed and rickety — the big climactic moment is too wacky, the denouement all too easy.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
  • The film’s denouement occurs when Stanley finds a place nearby the sand holes that has less sand.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
  • After all, his character’s demise is the denouement of the first season.
    — Alex Bhattacharji, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • The rural setting and denouement bring to mind Agatha Christie.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The denouement of what appears to be a case of surveillance gone wrong remains far from certain.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Does that make it, as Rothman teased, the greatest denouement ever?
    — New York Times, 28 July 2019
  • There was always a risk that the chaos that blighted the denouement would have occurred in any withdrawal.
    — Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
  • For the Magees, like so many families, death triggered the denouement.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
  • The Betts saga has dragged on all offseason with no denouement or clarity in sight.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2020
  • And of course that musical finale helps to restore some balance to the denouement.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
  • This was the denouement of a long process, begun more than fourscore years before and cruelly delayed for many decades.
    — Michael Barone, Arkansas Online, 24 June 2021
  • This image of a broken man would have made for a terrifying denouement.
    — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
  • The denouement of the sip is a lingering finish that is pleasantly warm.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 4 June 2021
  • Back in Illinois, Janus had been on hold pending a Friedrichs denouement.
    — James Taranto, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • For that reason, and out of deference to the author and his readers, the denouement cannot be revealed here.
    — Jonathan Kirsch, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • And when the action reached its denouement in the high mountains, Vingegaard came to the front and set a pace for Kuss.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Despite the bitter denouement with Chris, Tory is as close as ever to his three girls.
    — Bruce Weber, Vogue, 23 July 2015

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