How to Use anticlimax in a Sentence

anticlimax

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  • The last chapter of the book was an anticlimax.
  • The movie ended in anticlimax.
  • But the book’s anticlimax is the hook upon which the whole thing hangs.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
  • And the game ended in an anticlimax that gave the Ravens the victory.
    — Robert Morast, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Here, wrapping with an anticlimax seems to be Aster’s idea of a joke.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Apr. 2023
  • In each of these hunts, the anticlimax of the stalk is tempered by awe at the animal’s anatomy.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 21 Feb. 2020
  • At some point, the titans will retreat, we will be left with a new cast and there will be some anticlimax.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Indeed, the end even of a great mystery can feel like an anticlimax.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Though most of them would probably regard his move to P.S.G. as a bit of an anticlimax, too.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The heist itself is an anticlimax, heightened by there being no bad guys in the bank, just more victims.
    — Peter Hartlaub, Orange County Register, 6 Apr. 2017
  • And where the ninth episode is amazing on almost every level the finale is a bit of an anticlimax.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2021
  • And then the quick anticlimax, as Apollo ended in 1972.
    — Andrew Grant, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2012
  • Yet for all the gravity of the moment, there is a palpable sense of anticlimax.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Pax Persiana If the rise of the Persian emperor was stellar, his end was a grim anticlimax.
    — National Geographic, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Inevitably, the second-chance try goes in, providing the height of anticlimax.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 25 June 2019
  • Then, in the pinnacle of anticlimax, Wood uncorked a first-pitch wild pitch to Kris Bryant, allowing Baez to sprint home from third for the winning run.
    — Zach Buchanan, Cincinnati.com, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The first try is often (and rightly) an awkward, anxious, and low-key painful anticlimax.
    — Karley Sciortino, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2018
  • In many ways Dole’s general-election campaign was an anticlimax to the greater dramas of his life.
    — David M. Shribman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • And, despite fears that the series could be an anticlimax after the remarkable World Cup final, most of the five Test matches were thrillers.
    — M.j., The Economist, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The sense that the franchise was an anticlimax, even a disappointment, was widespread among those who had taken part in the cause, like Virginia Woolf.
    — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2020
  • That anticlimax had put Carvalho on the defensive at the time, even though the storm caused notable damage in other parts of the Southland.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Photo: Getty The delay marked an anticlimax to a rush of activity in the House.
    — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • In such an instance, the issue may not only be that the audience has been robbed of drama, that climax has been swapped out for anticlimax.
    — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 5 July 2019
  • As the room emptied, Mace weighed his victory against its anticlimax.
    — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • The first drops are already falling, pattering down in a vast anticlimax.
    — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
  • After all this, arriving in Key West was at first an anticlimax.
    — Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The home page is an anticlimax of a greeting, stale and still except for the bare-bones GIF of a small, perpetually running blue figure that serves as the site’s logo.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
  • But the post-Bernstein years — even Mehta’s 13-year run, the orchestra’s longest-ever directorship — come across in many tellings as a bit of an anticlimax.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • For all the menace and mystique around hacking tools, actually shutting one down is a bit of an anticlimax.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The visual drama compensates for the anticlimax of the building’s main entry, which is located off a parking lot on the building’s rear side.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 21 July 2019

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