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.

Tom doesn't know the difference between climax and climacteric.

The game came to a climax.

The audience sobbed throughout the climax of the movie.

All voices were extinguished in the climax.

Mary did not climax when she and Tom had their first sexual intercourse.

I am reaching the climax.

I have read many sci-fi novels since my teenage years, and now I am strangely climaxing in later adult years by watching anime, still sci-fi.