Crossword-Solution: CRESCENDO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crescendo | a. & adv. | With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score. |
| Crescendo | n. | A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed. |
| Crescendo | n. | A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CRESCENDO (5)
There are a lot of these systems, IRS, the Census Department has one, the FBI, the DIA, the CIA, the NSA, the OBM, I can go on." Che2's voice crescendo'd and he got more demonstrative as the importance he attributed to each subject increased.
The cries from the street were interminable; each howler in turn heard faintly in the distance, then in crescendo until he had passed and another succeeded him, and all the while Cora lay tossing and whispering between clenched teeth.
When he straightened again he was occupied with every voice of earth and air around and above him, and the notes of singing hens, exultant cocks, the scream of geese, the quack of ducks, the rasping crescendo of guineas running wild in the woods, the imperial note of Ajax sunning on the ridge pole and echoes from all of them on adjoining and distant farms.
The prayer, that was not of mourning but of praise, ended with a final crescendo from the organ, The silent black-robed figures were seated.
Strether gets the ladies to work for him! He’s just preparing to draw in another; to pounce—don’t you see him?—on Madame de Vionnet.” “Madame de Vionnet? Oh, oh, oh!” Miss Barrace cried in a wonderful crescendo.
Quotes with CRESCENDO (3)
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
The organist was almost at the end of the anthem’s long introduction, and as the crescendo increases the cathedral began to glitter before my eyes until I felt as if every stone in the building was vibrating in anticipation of the sweeping sword of sound from the Choir. The note exploded in our midst, and at that moment I knew our creator had touched not only me but all of us, just as Harriet had touched that sculpture with a loving hand long ago, and in that touch I sensed t…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1982–2025).