Climax has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The audience sobbed throughout the climax of the movie. | |
| 2. | The game came to a climax. | |
| 3. | All voices were extinguished in the climax. | |
| 4. | Mary did not climax when she and Tom had their first sexual intercourse. | |
| 5. | Tom doesn't know the difference between climax and climacteric. | |
| 6. | My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. | |
| 7. | I am reaching the climax. |