How to Use dissonant in a Sentence

dissonant

adjective

• This was played with élan over dissonant swirling in the strings.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
• Some of those weird dissonant chords, there’s some of that in there for sure.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2025
• Horns have two notes, which is what creates that dissonant horn sound.
  — Ray Magliozzi, courant.com, 15 July 2019
• The flash of a police car appears, then a dissonant siren sounds.
  — Dave Eggers, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
• Or might just scare people a little bit too much, or are just too dissonant and too hard to take?
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
• Roberts brought in dissonant strings and brass for the K2 battle droids.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 29 May 2025
• This is yet another season that brings a dissonant clash of hope and fear, chaos and progress.
  — Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 21 Mar. 2021
• Even when the hooks are sweet or seductive, her work is still dissonant and provocative.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• That 30-year curve is part of the dissonant music of Roland’s life.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• Later, both motifs sound against a pileup of dissonant chords, which is like a wall through which neither can pass.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
• As the title suggests, the songs are not only melancholic but, at times, dissonant.
  — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
• Nobody went to see the movie, and the score is unflinchingly dissonant.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
• And then that huge, dissonant, gorgeous, ugly guitar chord that begins the song.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
• The crowd sings the chorus in dissonant harmony.
  — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
• It was improvised and dissonant and the type of weird that gave everyone goosebumps.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
• Marchand’s dissonant, whiny voice made the character even harder to take.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
• The smell of vinegar, brash and dissonant, wafted out of my childhood kitchen often, tickling my nose.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• As things got crazier with our heroes and the Supes, things became more dissonant.
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 12 June 2026
• The music is equal parts dissonant, jarring, and melodic, sometimes sounding more like a sci-fi score than an opera.
  — Paul Ross, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2018
• The concluding unresolved dissonant splat of a chord seemed as sensible a way to end the piece as any.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• To the ear, the multiple frequencies can sound a bit like dissonant keys on a piano being struck all at once.
  — Josh Lederman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Last year, the Tour picked up a complementary voice, albeit a dissonant one.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
• Join the internet on a dissonant journey through the origin story of the cashew below.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
• Then there are the dissonant piano chords, the 808s and dramatic strings.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 30 Aug. 2019
• At the end of the second movement, falling glissandos in the strings provoked a dissonant buildup, which gave way to a lush melody.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
• My favorite disk in the collection is probably the most dissonant.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• The bear can be seen wandering around the apartment and at one point went to a piano, putting its paws on the keys playing a few loud and dissonant notes.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 6 June 2017
• Most people who compose for film think the music and the actions of the people in the film have to be consonant or dissonant.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 9 Feb. 2024
• But don’t try too hard to leak these because humility sours quickly into tooting the dissonant sounds of your own horn.
  — Shakeel Ahmed, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• But in the process, El has been reduced to a dissonant mix of heroic self-sacrifice and homicidal rage.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 July 2022