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Example sentences for "diminuendo"

Lexicographically close words:
diminish; diminished; diminishes; diminisheth; diminishing; diminution; diminutions; diminutive; diminutives; dimisit
  1. And it is amidst this crescendo and diminuendo of frost and snow that we first recognize forms that are like the forms of men.

  2. Then presently, amidst the diminuendo of the gun fire, would come the inimitable rushing sound of the fire brigade engines and the hurry of the ambulances.

  3. There is the coy advance and retreat of a woman hard to win; there is the crescendo and diminuendo of heavenly harmonies; there is the dissolving view that glimmers and glows like an opal, or like the mirage of a misty sea.

  4. I must say I enjoyed hearing Whythe's crescendo, obligato, diminuendo way of making it, but I realize now I am not the sort of person to really fall in love with strange men.

  5. There is never going to be any crescendo or diminuendo business about Billy's love-making, and I might as well make up my mind to that in the beginning.

  6. For an hour longer a diminuendo of gasps and gurgles rattled in its racked throat.

  7. From the standpoint of musical structure the work is a crescendo followed by a diminuendo and, poetically considered, is a convincing picture in terms of music of the effect made upon Liszt's imagination by the legend of Orpheus.

  8. Carefully observe the effects of crescendo < and diminuendo >.

  9. The crescendo and diminuendo must be observed according to direction, and as a help to this effect the soft pedal may be used simultaneously, either all of the time or occasionally, in an experimental way and according to fancy.

  10. Diminuendo Bibliography Dandies and Dandies How very delightful Grego's drawings are!

  11. Diminuendo In the year of grace 1890, and in the beautiful autumn of that year, I was a freshman at Oxford.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diminuendo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.