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.
• In the months since, however, gas prices have dropped roughly 26%, even as the war continues to escalate.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
• And after several later episodes escalate the stakes and scale of the story, the finale is oddly muted, as if everyone involved just ran out of steam.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2024
• At the White House, there’s also growing concern that Putin might further escalate the conflict after recent setbacks.
  — Pia Sarkar, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022
• The Kremlin's actions underlined that the war continues to escalate, which has in turn increased inflation and food insecurity across the world.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 27 Sep. 2022
• In the face of a decades-long overdose crisis that continues to escalate, doctors have become terrified that authorities will decide that their practice is out of line and throw them in prison for drug trafficking.
  — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2022
• Neither of us has had the heart to escalate, and no doors have been slammed.
  — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• The escalating cheers of the crowd hit a crescendo at 1:47 a.m.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Israel and Hezbollah kept up cross-border fire for nearly a year until Israel escalated with an attack that detonated hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024