Usage examples (9)

• He followed this rhetorical question with the same two notes, ritardando, played four quaver chords, then a bar which disrupted one's expectations by the introduction of...
• The last three or four syllables of the Epistle are chanted more slowly, ritardando at the end.
• The guitar builds up with ascending chords over a ritardando, the drums go out of time, and Dio just wails on the vocals.
• During our two rehearsal sessions, we spent quite a bit of time on the drastic tempo changes, from the I Tempo, to allargando, to ritardando to molto ritardando;...