How to Use resonance in a Sentence

resonance

noun
Definition of resonancenext
  • His story didn't have much resonance with the audience.
  • One goal: To find resonance for today from the lessons of the past.
    — oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Launched in 2000, this was the world’s first wristwatch to make use of resonance.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 May 2022
  • The reaction and the resonance to the film, at this scale, did surprise me, yes.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2023
  • That night, the wounded Thinker took on a new life with new resonance.
    — Randal Doane, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • In fact, the resonance of The Survivor rings too true today.
    — Barry Levinson, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022
  • There was just a lot of resonance between then and now.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2021
  • That has some resonances with The Lightning Thief, right?
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But the play has a grim frisson of fresh resonance today.
    — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Some of that type of storytelling may have even more resonance around the show.
    — Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The choice of a male role has poetic resonance for Mey.
    — Daniel Bromfield, The Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Or there is something in the artist’s life that creates resonance for us.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2024
  • There are two warnings in all of this, both of them bleak, both of them with resonance far beyond Ajax.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Hee’s felt it through a resonance board made with a Bluetooth speaker on it.
    — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2023
  • There’s resonance in a body that forces families to deal with death.
    — Karen Heller, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Bichir believes that Eleanor's plight has resonance in the real world.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Netflix is seeking to cast ’90s mainstays for the band roles to give the film extra resonance and fun.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Set aside the resonance of Kristallnacht in 1938, which Gov. Josh Shapiro noted.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Part of the physics of resonance is that when two forms vibrate together, both are changed.
    — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • There’s a lot of resonance there right now for anyone who is marginalized.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
  • At the same time, Trump's gains may have greater resonance moving forward.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The Colorado Springs shooting was sure to bring special resonance to those events.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Add up a few of these shifts and the orbits of neighboring planets are spread apart enough far enough to lose their resonance.
    — Sean Raymond, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The fact that the movie has any resonance is great—but, at the same time, tells me that, unfortunately, the issue is still very much around.
    — Elissa Suh, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Noting that the fact that it was partly shot in Ukraine, standing in for Poland, also brought a new resonance to the story.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 July 2022
  • But check out the many episodes that came before; in each one, the emotional resonance is ageless.
    — Diane Cole, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Still, the film’s commercial success speaks to its wide reach and resonance.
    — Kaitlyn Huamani, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
  • There’s something about the darkness and melancholy of Irish dramas that give them a resonance all their own.
    — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • But those resonances should serve as an injunction against wide-scale killing, not as a call to extend it.
    — Atina Grossmann, The New York Review of Books, 20 Nov. 2023
  • On the whole, though, Agatha All Along is marvelously entertaining, binge-able fun with just enough emotional resonance and heartbreak to give it a bit of depth.
    — Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024

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