Example sentences for: resonant

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

  • He has "created a resonant parable of American innocence and disillusion" (Kakutani).

  • 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.

  • George Bush--a professed admirer of TR--is the Tarzan of our day: A patrician Yalie (Lord Greystoke), and at the same time a Texan redneck (Tarzan), engaged in wildcatting (could there be a more metaphorically resonant term?)

  • 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.

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


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