How to Use anticlimax in a Sentence

anticlimax

noun

• 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
• 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
• The story meanders near the end, but the anticlimax can't quite dispel the movie's warm eccentricity.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 3 May 2018

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