Sentence examples for climacteric from inspiring English sources

In climacteric fruits (e.g., banana, pear, apple), ripening is accompanied by increased respiration.

In the male, the excretion of androgens (male sex hormones and their degradation products) falls gradually over the age span 50 90, so that the existence of a male "climacteric" is highly improbable.

There goes the subtle climacteric of "Decoy," and here comes, once more, cornucopia.

From the ninth day onward, as ethylene output decreased, the speckles began to swell back up to their original dimensions, signalling that the apple had passed its so-called climacteric peak.

"It was an earthquake, a climacteric, a revelation".

It forms the climacteric to Maxwell's third novel, The Folded Leaf, in which the hero, Lymie, slits his wrists.

Lines from a 1956 poem called To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage have stayed with me: Gored by the climacteric of his want, He stalls above me like an elephant Powerful stuff.

Laslett recognised that critical commentary on the philosophies of this climacteric period - especially on the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke - rested on absurdly shaky foundations.

After the climacteric of the Second World War, Koestler's life became a long, tortured, public self-explication until, as he put it, "Cassandra had gone hoarse".

The Victorian surgeon Lawson Tait thought that the solution to "climacteric discomfort" was to lock women up.

With Peter Jackson at the helm, this seems fair enough, if you favour his particular brand of hysterical, multi-climacteric-filled epic film-making.