How to Use resilience in a Sentence

resilience

noun
  • Cold temperatures caused the material to lose resilience.
  • The rescue workers showed remarkable resilience in dealing with the difficult conditions.
  • This is a book that speaks to the resilience of the human spirit.
    John J. Kelly, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2020
  • That speaks to what has been a theme of this year – the resilience of this team.
    Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Cau says there is some proof of resilience on this front as well.
    Aleksandra Gjorgievska, Bloomberg.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Our team showed great resilience and fought our way to the playoffs.
    Alysha Tsuji, For The Win, 9 May 2018
  • All of this amounted to quite the gut check to test the Saints’ resilience.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The need for local resilience in the face climate chaos is growing all the time.
    David Roberts, Vox, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Connection might be the key to resilience in tough times.
    Courtney McGee, baltimoresun.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The jays may offer the best hope of resilience for piñon-juniper forests.
    Sara Van Note, WIRED, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Schools are trying to start the work now to help students build resilience.
    Sonali Kohli, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2020
  • The image being hailed as a symbol of the city’s resilience and hope?
    Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2017
  • If anything, the Aztecs showed a fresh kind of resilience.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Lawrence and the Jaguars showed tremendous resilience in the second half.
    Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Your sense of self, your strength and resilience — no one can take these away from you.
    Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The Spurs had plenty of chances to display their resilience.
    Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The resilience the mother had built over the years was quickly running out.
    Wilma Maldonado, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • In it’s place is guile, guts, and a legendary resilience.
    Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 11 June 2019
  • In any case, the show had a resilience that no one back then could have predicted.
    Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Her resilience has been a great source of inspiration and strength for me.
    Hanna Howard, Teen Vogue, 19 Oct. 2017
  • So the resilience needed to bounce back from a two-sack season hasn’t been hard to muster.
    Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 3 Jan. 2022
  • In the midst of so much present grief, these story lines gave us faith in the planet's resilience.
    Jordan Salama, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
  • There is still hope, however, in the resilience of love.
    Ajay Verghese, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
  • This concept of resilience is something that teens can build over time.
    Katia Hetter, CNN, 23 Dec. 2020
  • There was no evidence of resilience or hints of a rally.
    Vahe Gregorian, kansascity, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Whether such resilience can be sustained remains to be seen.
    Michael MacKenzie, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
  • But the story — one of courage, danger and resilience — is far from over.
    Thomas Maresca and John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 July 2018
  • Flooding makes those directly in harm’s way aware of the need to build resilience.
    Karen Pennar, STAT, 27 Oct. 2022
  • This resilience would carry him through decades of struggle.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Now our strength and resilience are again being tested.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020

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