Example sentences for: resonant

How can you use “resonant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Most critics say yes, praising the "resonant, body-slamming riffs that will leave you shuddering" (Amy Sciaretto, CMJ ) and the fact that the band's lyrics "make a case that there are still some things worth fighting for" (Will Hermes, Entertainment Weekly ). A few are not impressed: Jim Derogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times calls lead singer Zack de la Rocha "insufferable" and his lyrics "addlepated," and compares his contributions to the band's otherwise excellent music to "rodent droppings at a gourmet dinner."

  • Eastern tribes, for example, used to delight and amaze early colonists with their resonant and evocative names--names that, when translated, turned out to have much of the broad humor and graphic wit of European-style nicknames.

  • His voice on the page is a rummy baritone, fat and resonant but capable of a cruel exactitude, as when he describes a girlfriend's melting love for him.

  • To this day historians are unsure what those resonant syllables actually mean.

  • Fight Club careers from one resonant satirical idea to the next without quite deciding whether its characters are full of crap or are Gen X prophets.


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