How to Use escalate in a Sentence

escalate

verb

• We are trying not to escalate the violence.
• The conflict has escalated into an all-out war.
• The cold weather has escalated fuel prices.
• Salaries of leading executives have continued to escalate.
• Neither of us has had the heart to escalate, and no doors have been slammed.
  — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Deputies were heard trying to de-escalate the shootout.
  — Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2023
• When her symptoms escalate, the idea of a hike (or any kind of workout) is off the table.
  — Condé Nast, SELF, 25 Sep. 2023
• Someone else screams that the feds are the ones escalating things.
  — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• She is overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame and is forced to face her past.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
• The steady rain of rockets is a reminder that things can escalate very quickly.
  — Adam Goldman Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Koffler warned that the rhetoric alone from the top nuclear powers could escalate the war in Ukraine.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2022
• The war of words escalates into a shootout on horseback, with Bass shooting Esau off his horse.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• The feud between Lamar and Drake has escalated since March.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2024
• The journey to this predicament can be traced back to last year’s sharp rise in mortgage rates, which escalated from 3% to over 7%.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• Scientists first sounded the alarm in April and the ocean warmth has only escalated since.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 17 July 2023
• The latest news on the escalating conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
  — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
• The growth in exports comes as China faces escalated trade tensions with the U.S. and Europe.
  — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune Asia, 7 June 2024
• Read the rhymes as prose or sing it as a song and enjoy the escalating silliness with each animal the monster swallows.
  — Laura Denby, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
• Frictions and tensions at even high levels of the Taliban could escalate.
  — Time, 17 July 2023
• So younger families and first-time buyers are struggling to be able to afford the prices and rents along with that have escalated as well.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
• Crude prices have been on a roller coaster in recent weeks as traders tracked the outlook for escalating conflict in the Middle East.
  — Rob Verdonck, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2024
• Many buyers and sellers at China’s biggest trade event, held in the southern city of Guangzhou, shrugged off the risk of an escalating trade war.
  — Bybloomberg, Fortune Asia, 24 Apr. 2024
• Bridges picked up a technical and Grant Williams, who joined the scrum late, got ejected for escalating the conflict.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
• Gaza and the escalating war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon are all parts of the world that need solutions addressed.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 23 Sep. 2024
• The company’s ever escalating fees have also come to the attention of the White House and Congress.
  — Samantha Stewart, Fortune, 29 July 2023
• That dispute escalated in gunfire and all three men got hit.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2024
• All patent disputes that are escalated on the platforms are sent to this department.
  — Michael Benarde, Fortune, 10 May 2024
• Season two of Invasion picks up just months later with the aliens escalating their attacks in an all out war against the humans.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 22 Aug. 2023
• In 2020, a series of escalating protests in Washington, D.C., culminated in the attack on the Capitol after the turn of the new year.
  — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
• Israel struck Iran multiple times on Saturday in an escalating regional tit-for-tat.
  — Benjamin Brown, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024