Examples of “denouement” in a Sentence

noun The final part of a play, film or novel, after the climax, in which the remaining questions are answered and the plot is tied up.

• The murder is solved in chapter twenty, and the denouement runs for another thirty pages.
• Critics found the denouement rushed.

noun The way a complicated real-life situation finally works out.

• The denouement of the takeover battle surprised everyone in the City.