Example Sentences

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Months of controversy had climaxed in a set of high crime & misdemeanor charges.

From Time Magazine Archive

By diligent search he had found the man Murphy, the Clanahan henchman, who, under pressure, had given away the Timber Mountain plot which had climaxed in the kidnapping of the boss.

From The Wreckers by Lynde, Francis