How to Use resonant in a Sentence

resonant

adjective
  • He has a deep, resonant voice.
  • His words were resonant with meaning.
  • The finish is resonant, with a light thrum of spicy heat.
    Susan Choung, Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Looking to the legal horizon, the Supreme Court could find this plan resonant.
    Aron Solomon, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • But a colleague devised a more resonant title for the team: the coolhunters.
    Mark Bergen, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2022
  • At the end of every play in the Dublin Trilogy, the stage has pushed beyond the real into a dense and resonant space of metaphor.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
  • At the same time, Glaser’s own magazine work was among his most resonant achievements.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Wise to the ways truth shifts with its tellers, Diop has created a resonant novel.
    Monitor Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The plays themselves are deep and resonant and beautiful and moving.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • And the tools available to him are few: a resonant name, a gentle manner, and a handful of social-media accounts.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • One resonant talk has the power to inspire an audience– both in their lives and in making a decision to work with you.
    Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The design is also pivotal to the show’s deeply affecting climax, a resonant moment of change and epiphany.
    Celia Wren, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Clooney’s father, Nick, 88, his TV anchorman voice still resonant, shared his pride in his son.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
  • And the most resonant deal in this year’s spending bonanza involved a player many sports fans have never heard of.
    Ben Cohen, WSJ, 14 July 2023
  • In some ways, the quiet moments are more resonant than the cacophony.
    Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 July 2022
  • But the timing of Ms. Albright’s memorial in the midst of the most seismic clash between liberty and repression since the Cold War made the event feel all the more resonant.
    New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • This is a story that was resonant in the first place — little adaptation needed.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The 2023 Latin Grammys opened on a high note, and a culturally resonant choice, with the beautiful Rosalía.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But quite a large share of the interesting or culturally resonant stuff had already happened, or, in the case of the Christians, was still to come.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
  • This is why Khalifa, with whom the novel opens, is such a resonant character.
    Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The product was a failure because the price changes weren’t resonant with customers, Iyengar argued.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
  • And there were some other things going on in the world that seemed really resonant and relevant to today.
    Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
  • In the end, for all the grand heraldry and pageantry of marching bands and artillery firings throughout the first six hours of funeral events, the quieter moments were the ones that seemed most evocative and resonant.
    David Zurawik, CNN, 19 Sep. 2022
  • These themes simply could not exist without the Christmas backdrop, and the film is indisputably better and more resonant with those themes in place.
    Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 28 Nov. 2022
  • In the first episode, Eleanor is shown providing the most resonant words of FDR's famed 1933 inauguration address.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Light with just the right energy (resonant light) landing on an atom can change the state and energy of an electron within it, imparting forces on the atom.
    Charles D. Brown Ii, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • But if someone sings loudly enough and at a pitch that exactly matches the glass’s resonant frequency, the glass could shatter.
    Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Ry Russo-Young has been set to direct the feature based on the emotionally resonant story.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But historians noted that the British monarch is a resonant figure to unionists in Northern Ireland, who are the main holdouts to the trade agreement.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Walter DuMelle was the standout of the evening as the Sorceress (a role sometimes sung by men), his rich, resonant, rumbling voice well-matched to the rock accompaniment.
    Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022

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