Preliminaries leading to a climax

Usage examples of buildup.

Although American patrols had managed to spot three more enemy divisions than usual opposite the Ardennes, much of the German buildup for Operation Christrose went undetect- ed.

From the deck, Barry could watch the buildup of the storms, see the coalescing clouds, watch the rain as it came up from the south and moved like a light white curtain over the canyon lands and through the hilly forest toward Corban and Bonita Vista.

Kothlis buildup eight days before that traitor Carib Devist brought his falsified data to the Parshoone Ubiqtorate station, which was how Solo found Bastion.

The admiral had played a key part in the logistics buildup that helped force Iraq out of Kuwait and had later counseled that the drawdown of forces from Saudi Arabia following the successful conclusion of the war, leaving only a small trip-wire force in Kuwait and massive military stockpiles in the Saudi desert, was premature.

Formerly the concentration of firedamp had been much lower, a slow seep rather than a sudden buildup.

Yet the buildup had taken two decades, and those stations had outproduced their most optimistic predictions for another two decades.

Last, the enforcement of the no-fly zones prevents Iraq from fully reconstituting its air defenses in southern Iraq, which would make striking an Iraqi ground buildup near Kuwait or Saudi Arabia much easier.

This could preclude a rapid American military buildup in the area, giving Iraq a window of opportunity during which it could employ its weakened, but still regionally potent, ground forces in a limited offensive operation.

Darting out of the littoral cumulus buildup, the Security Bureau craft checked its position over a gutted and charred Nice, then climbed southeastward over the Mediterranean.

Reconnaissance forces sent to adjoining sectors - both here, in the Trianii colonies, and here, at Dathomir - have detected a buildup of significantly larger ships.

And there were antivortex baffles, like huge propeller blades, to prevent the buildup of whirlpools—like those above the plug hole of a draining bath—that could suck bubbles of vapor into the feed pipes.

The sensors showed massive power buildups in areas close to the destruction.

Garai stared at those power buildups, wondering if he could raid them as the ships came down.

It was not uncommon for the supporting characters to be more active than the protagonists and the laughs came more from spontaneous humor than from punch lines with long buildups.

Not the coating inside the guts, of course, but harmful buildups of deposits elsewhere within the body.