crescendoed in a sentence

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1. In 1992-93, an injury-and distraction-riddled season crescendoed with the Bulls taking a self-imposed vow of silence with the media during the playoffs, climaxed with John Paxson's last-second championship-winning 3-point shot and crashed with Jordan taking his infamous early retirement.
2. Even though public support for Flinn had crescendoed in the last several days, most dramatically with criticism of the Air Force on the White House lawn on Tuesday by Sen . Trent Lott, the Republican majority leader, a counterattack had also begun as Flinn was labeled as a predatory husband-stealer by the former wife of the civilian man Flinn had been involved with.