How to Use escalate in a Sentence

escalate

verb

• We are trying not to escalate the violence.
• The conflict has escalated into an all-out war.
• The cold weather has escalated fuel prices.
• Salaries of leading executives have continued to escalate.
• The world is watching to see if the threat will escalate.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
• Neither of us has had the heart to escalate, and no doors have been slammed.
  — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• The escalating cheers of the crowd hit a crescendo at 1:47 a.m.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
• Tensions escalate when Tony, a Jet, falls in love with Maria, the sister of the leader of the Sharks.
  — Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• Deputies were heard trying to de-escalate the shootout.
  — Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2023
• The pressure to de-escalate the conflict is likely to grow as the impact is felt around the world.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 19 May 2022
• When her symptoms escalate, the idea of a hike (or any kind of workout) is off the table.
  — Condé Nast, SELF, 25 Sep. 2023
• Someone else screams that the feds are the ones escalating things.
  — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• As the attack escalated, one of the crooks pulled out a scalpel and slashed both victims.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
• And if the trade war escalates, expect prices to keep climbing along with it.
  — Patrick.reis, Vox, 4 Mar. 2025
• She is overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame and is forced to face her past.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
• The steady rain of rockets is a reminder that things can escalate very quickly.
  — Adam Goldman Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Koffler warned that the rhetoric alone from the top nuclear powers could escalate the war in Ukraine.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2022
• The president said adding those MiGs to the Ukrainian air force would escalate the conflict.
  — Bing West, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2022
• The war of words escalates into a shootout on horseback, with Bass shooting Esau off his horse.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• The feud between Lamar and Drake has escalated since March.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2024
• The journey to this predicament can be traced back to last year’s sharp rise in mortgage rates, which escalated from 3% to over 7%.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• All this leads to tension, which can escalate into a headache.
  — Rebecca Joy Stanborough, SELF, 19 Apr. 2022
• But there’s a risk that the cyberwar could escalate if Russia’s cyber gangs join the fray.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2022
• As the murders escalate, there’s an attempt at a truce in which the Irish and Italian bosses meet at a Mafia clubhouse.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
• Scientists first sounded the alarm in April and the ocean warmth has only escalated since.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 17 July 2023
• The latest news on the escalating conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
  — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
• The escalating threat of avian flu has forced farmers to kill millions of chickens to prevent its spread.
  — Alexandra M. Lord, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2025
• In the months since, however, gas prices have dropped roughly 26%, even as the war continues to escalate.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
• However, that was before Trump escalated his trade war, piling on still higher tariffs with the aim of compelling manufacturers to rebase production to the United States.
  — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
• The Trump administration has been on a chaotic tariff spree over the past several months, escalating trade tensions with China and unsettling Americans.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025