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How to use anti-climax in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word anti-climax? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Yuletide always ends up an anti-climax, resembling a period of mourning for the loss of what once was, rather than a fun and celebratory period.
At any rate, the anti-climax that was last night is now well and truly over.
The outcome of the seat-sharing imbroglio was like an anti-climax in a Bollywood flop.
So the whole thing becomes an anti-climax that set my teeth gnashing once again.
If anyone, resuming their seat for the second half, thought the Purcell would be an anti-climax, they were quickly disabused.
The Sunday thus proved something of an anti-climax, with three convincing results.
Even the ones who threatened a wobbly lower lip and adulterous quick beating of the heart proved to be a thorough anti-climax.
The final three days were a bit of an anti-climax for the group, with relatively easy paddles on flat waters to the rendezvous with the yacht.
With such a fearsome rivalry between the sides, there was a feeling of anti-climax at the final whistle, but there is still plenty to play for at the FIFA World Cup.
The lions, mostly dozing in the sun, were more of an anti-climax.
Instead, it just kind of blissfully floats around in its own self-contained environment, content to prettily fizzle out into an unceremonious anti-climax.
The only real anti-climax is the fact that it is all over way too soon.
So superior were Nazarov's side, in fact, that the tournament's grand finale proved something of an anti-climax, with Sri Lanka losing 4-0 in a one-sided final where the first goal was scored inside 50 seconds.
After all the hullabaloo of the holidays and trying to get everything ready in time I'm left feeling drained with a profound sense of anti-climax.
Seeing him whiny and peevish in the first debate was a huge anti-climax.
If there is a touch of anti-climax in South America on Tuesday night, it is because surely nothing can match the bedlam of Barranquilla, where Colombia confirmed their ticket to Brazil last weekend.
Today I have extremely achy legs and a strange sense of anti-climax.
Examples from Classical Literature
In spite of this anti-climax, Ardan's companions could hardly consider his utterings either as ridiculous or over enthusiastic.
Such was the grand anti-climax to the Major-General's anabasis.
It was an anti-climax, a bathos, of which St. Augustine is seldom guilty.
The resulting sense of anti-climax, of vague inconsequentiality, is meant to function as a hint.
His panacea was somewhat in the nature of an anti-climax, but at least it had the merits of simplicity and of common sense.
Enough may have been said, however, to impart some faint idea of what this youth was to me in the bitter and embittering anti-climax of my life.
There are two ways of encountering an anti-climax, an heroic, an unheroic.
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