How to Use resultant in a Sentence

resultant

1 of 2 adjective
  • This is besides the loss of labour hours and the resultant loss of income.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The resultant delays have only stoked the fire — and the ire.
    Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The 18 canyons here were formed by melting glaciers and the resultant floods.
    Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
  • That fact shapes the specifics of the resultant mentorships too.
    Matt Hartman, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The resultant traces of smoke seem non sequitur as the distillery eschews the use of peat.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Floyd’s resultant death set off protests and rallies throughout the country and around the world.
    cleveland, 12 June 2020
  • His resultant bad leg cut him off from playing sports, but a typing class led him to become a writer.
    Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The resultant structure looks like a hand, palm facing inwards.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • Once that is fractured, the resultant divide poses huge headaches.
    The Economist, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Rainfall was the main impact from the storm because of all the resultant flooding.
    courant.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The resultant footage showed a mouse picking up clothes pegs, corks, nuts and bolts and sorting them into order.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The company estimates that the resultant crater will be about two miles wide and a thousand feet deep.
    Max Norman, The New Yorker, 23 July 2021
  • The resultant porco preto is marbled with fat, filled with flavor.
    Paul Ames, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Sochan is of the mind to want to put the ball on the floor and attack the rim, while also being willing to take any resultant jumpers.
    Mark Deeks, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Grieco and her team were deep in the vetting process when protests—and resultant consumer activism—began this summer.
    Akili King, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2020
  • These irresponsible people help to create the resultant tragedy of too many pets, and too few homes.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2020
  • The resultant wave was not just a tsunami but the largest tsunami ever recorded, a megatsunami.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The resultant watch, the Fifty Fathoms, first saw the light of day in 1953.
    Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2023
  • For thunderstorms and resultant lightning to occur, there must be rising currents of warm, moist air.
    Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The resultant maps are what helped Republicans make unlikely gains in the blue state.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
  • Charcoal is burned in the smaller one, with the resultant smoke and heat vented to the larger compartment, where the food is cooked/smoked.
    Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • If the mid-range area of the standings and resultant stagnation is bad for business, then the question becomes whether to try to boom or to bust.
    Mark Deeks, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • The resultant shock wave damaged thousands of buildings and injured hundreds of people.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The resultant wine is smoothly subtle and an ideal bottle to crack open for an appetizer of mixed cheeses or to pair with a creamy pasta dish.
    Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The resultant meeting devolved, and Chuprov shot an Unangan man for grabbing the rope tying the boat to shore.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Here is a plot of the resultant angle of the 1 ball after the collision for different initial angles of the cue ball.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The tone of the interview, and the resultant backlash, seems to have sparked the CHC to take action.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The resultant overcrowding led to a major expansion of the region’s jail system.
    Frank Shyong Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
  • The flip was the impetus for the resultant identity crisis of the state GOP.
    Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 3 Feb. 2021
  • Some of that would fall to the ground with rain, but much of it would absorb sunlight, heating the surround air and riding the resultant rising motion into the stratosphere.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2019

resultant

2 of 2 noun
  • The resultant mergers seem to be five times more likely to be found in quasars.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • This is the resultant list, which has a gem or two for anyone looking for a new (old) book.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Christy Ucheibe scored the resultant penalty to set up a tense finale.
    ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Both aircraft were destroyed in the resultant crash with fire causing the death of four crew members on both planes.
    Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026
  • England prevailed in the first Test of each, going on to win two of the resultant series.
    Michael Bailey, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
  • In the human body, thick bones absorb the most X-rays, and appear white on the resultant image.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 July 2026
  • Chaos is a Greek word that denotes the resultant of speed and uncertainty.
    World Economic Forum, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Using a red filter will lessen the impact of red objects in the resultant B&W photo.
    Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The resultant panic attack lands her back in the psychiatrist’s office.
    Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Then came the attack on Iran, with the resultant manufacturing of consent.
    Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • That harvesting process gave the resultant kriek its name, Handgeplukte (Flemish for hand-picked).
    Brandon Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The planet either warmed up while engulfed during the red giant phase, or began heating as gravity pulled it closer to the resultant white dwarf.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 July 2026
  • Pakistan has traditionally run large fiscal and external deficits, with a resultant rise in public debt.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 25 June 2026
  • These occur when white dwarfs overfeed on companions and are completely destroyed by the resultant explosion.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 July 2026
  • The resultant meandering is pleasant, but much of the initial intrigue is lost when the uniqueness of the film’s concept becomes diluted.
    Blake Simons, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The resultant lift the craft exhibited is probably the first instance of plane taking off vertically.
    New Atlas, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The resultant chemicals can be stored separately then combined later to release some of the heat that was used to trigger the initial reaction.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Disruption and pain resultant from competition could lead to growth in order to weather the competition.
    Torie Bosch, STAT, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Asian stocks rose on Friday as oil prices fell, easing concerns about global energy prices and a potential resultant spike in inflation.
    Hugh Leask,chloe Taylor, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The resultant sonic boom shock waves frequently shattered windows, cracked building walls, and unnerved citizens within earshot.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 July 2026
  • Moyes and assistant McKinlay both remonstrated with the fourth official at the resultant flash of a yellow card.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • This is because, as the authors of the study note, people holding grudges tend to feel a sense of righteousness surrounding their hurt, as well as with their experience of the resultant grudge itself.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • The resultant explosion of particle effects will overwhelm the game engine and immediately trigger a blood moon.
    Alan Bradley, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The resultant musical needed greater expansion of character, a gentler, simpler touch, a better sense of authentic teenage angst and a deeper focus on the heart.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • One potential drawback of the proposal for higher tuition rates could be a resultant drop in enrollment levels of nonresident students.
    Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026
  • The resultant program or app is established without any need for understanding computer programming.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The resultant casualty levels were stunning.
    Jack Sheehan september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The resultant impunity means people turn to alternative structures for protection, from vigilantes to the very criminals that oppress them.
    Obi Anyadike, semafor.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The outermost portion of a rotor blade is moving too fast, and its angle of attack—the resultant of its circumferential velocity and the helicopter’s rate of descent—is too small; the sum of its forces is drag.
    Popular Science, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Finally, the resultant structure was coated in potassium hydroxide, which washes away less stable structures and leaves behind thousands of microscopic pores.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2024

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